Kate stated (regarding visiting nurses/post partum visits): I don't know if these vary by state, but they very well might. In New Jersey, an insurance company can avoid the minimum hospital stay law by sending a visiting nurse to visit mom & child in the home within the first week after discharge. When I was sent home on Monday after a Friday c-section with newborn twins (born at 36 wk. 5 days), the visiting nurse visit was not an optional activity. I suppose I could have refused her entrance into my home, but she was very insistent. As an experienced mother I found the entire visit (which lasted almost 2 1/2 hours) annoying and intrusive. Although there was quite a bit of basic parental/baby care/child safety information being imparted, much of it was in areas that I consider parenting issues and not medical ones - i.e. she obviously disapproved of our family bed. She was a bit alarmist about the twins weight loss (which at that point, five days after birth, was 7% of birthweight 6 lb. 1 oz). I politely declined her suggestions to supplement. Much of the basic breastfeeding information which she gave was outdated and just plain wrong IMNSHO. (I was encouraged to drink lots of milk, for example). Even my stepmom (who was with me during the visit) found some of the 'education' to be condescending and somewhat judgemental and offensive. Susan mailto:[log in to unmask] mom to Benjamin (5 Dec 91), Sarah (20 Jun 95), Maxwell & Helen (24 April 98)