Heather asked if Health Visitors (?) exist elsewhere.  I can't answer
that, but in Colorado, USA, we have a visiting nurses program for
newborns.  Under certain insurance companies a new mother is entitled
to at least one visit around a week post partum.  I had one after my
first birth.  She weighed the baby, looked at my c-section incision
and that's about it.  Pretty useless.  I didn't know her, and never
saw her again.  My main reason for having her come at all was to see
what she did, so I didn't bother the second time around.

I don't know if these vary by state, but they very well might.



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Kate Hallberg, mom to Ursula (11-23-94) and Sage (4-13-97)
Home page- http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina
Temporarily in Palo Alto, California.  I'm told it rains all winter here.  mailto:[log in to unmask]

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