Comments from parents to Chanita:
"Well what do you have to give a new mom?"
His response was that "for all the money he was  paying for insurance (which
actually his company paid for him), we could at least give him a couple of
bottles of formula."
  "it would be nice if  there was at least one thing for the baby in here."

 So maybe we do need some kind of parting gift.  The baby, after all, =
 they brought with them.  They're just carrying it home in a different =
 wrapper than they carried it in in.  And the (hopefully excellent) care =
 we give them they have paid for.  Maybe we could find appropriate things =
 to give that not only acknowledge the fact that they just had a baby, =
 but also say "Thanks for having your baby here."

 Dear Chanita, That is the same situations I see.  We can be doing the right
thing but the public may not see it that way.  We are having to "wean" them
off all the inappropriate freebies and then convince them they ARE getting
their money's worth.
Jane