> With our maternal and child
>health nursing system, the nurse (triple-certificate) would visit in the
>first week home and do a weigh. (At no cost to the family).
Not only do you do follow ups in the first week, but the nurse
comes to the mother. In my experience in the US, moms are expected to
bring their babie to the doctor's office or clinic in the first two
weeks post partum. LCs, VNA's, and hospice nurses are the only
practitioners I know of in the US who stil do home visits. New moms
are told to rest, take it easy and not go out in the early post partum
period EXCEPT to bring the baby for weight and early health checks.
The same is true of women on bed rest in late pregnancy.
Women are to stay in bed except to use the bathroom and visit
their docs (or midwives). If others have different experience, please
correct my misperception, it's one of my "pet peeves" and I'd
love to know that I'm wrong or that other places do it differently.

Naomi Bar-Yam

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