>Do health visitors exist anywhere else?

Thanks for the explanation, Heather. They sound very similar to child
health nurses in Australia. I guess the Australian system most likely was
modelled on the UK system, as many of our systems and institutions were. I
think this is a better system overall for monitoring mothers and babies
compared to the more medical-type system of paediatricians that seems to be
the norm in the USA. But then I haven't lived and had a baby in the USA to
really compare.

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Joy Anderson B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Grad.Dip.Med.Tech. IBCLC
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia Breastfeeding Counsellor
Perth, Western Australia.   mailto:[log in to unmask]
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