What ever happened to the advice the community midwives that I went  
out with who never advocated for a mother to leave the house for the  
first week after a baby was born?  The UK had/has some of the best  
post partum support because midwives visited moms/and babes at home  
for the first 10 days, a visit nearly each day in most cases in the  
area I trained in back in 1993/94.  This is quite sad.  New moms  
definitely shouldn't be out shopping in those early days.  And 20  
minutes isn't long enough especially if you are having problems.

Even where I live (Vancouver BC) new mothers get home visits by  
community nurses for as long as they need them and only have to go out  
for doctors visits, usually at a week PP.  I know its not like this  
everywhere here.  I was even offered a home visit at 8 weeks PP, after  
being signed off by my midwives, by the nurse who did my daughter's  
vaccinations.  Community nurses don't normally visit when a midwife is  
caring for a family.

Cordelia Merritt RN BSN IBCLC (midwife, but not practicing)


On Jan 8, 2009, at 3:39 PM, LACTNET automatic digest system wrote:

> Subject: weighing in the supermarket
>
> Here's the newest way to fit in a postnatal weight check in the UK:
>
> http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=8925
>
> Magda Sachs
> Registered Breastfeeding Supporter
> The Breastfeeding Network, UK


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