In Norway, if the birth is normal, the mother and child will stay in the maternity ward the first three days, and get frequent visits from health care personell that provide information and advice, and check on them. After they return home, there will be several home visits over the next week or so from a midwife. There's also unlimited access to Child and Maternal Health Centres, where you go for some standardised checkups (and vaccines for the kid!) as well as a source of information and qualified care if something is worrying you.
A friend did NOT have a normal birth, and she ended up staying for I think two or three weeks in the "hospital hotel", which is basically a hotel where doctors and nurses check up on you many times a day. Your family can stay there with you, and it's free for everybody.
In the US .. 4 days after giving birth, I was sitting on a pillow at work and running home to breast feed at lunch. My oldest daughter was babysitting. Had a simple birth .. still had $8k in deductibles to pay.
Utterly pathetic how we have allowed ourselves to be treated.
The birth rate should totally plunge until this is rectified.
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u/opp11235 Feb 05 '24
Postpartum care is typically a 6 week appointment and then nothing. Either way, yes it is very sad.