The stay in the maternity will soon be shorter, with follow-up at home moms

Shorter stay in the maternity benefit, but a home monitoring: experience
in several departments, the device, encouraged by health insurance will
be extended in 2012, under the watchful eye of midwives,
health-conscious and comfort of young mothers.

Noting that the length of stay in the maternity decreases, the National
Health Insurance Fund will provide better support the return home of
women. A study of the DREES (statistics of social ministries) of 2008,
one in five women regret because deficiencies in information to prepare
his discharge from hospital.
Generalized scheme in 2012

The project will help to return home (PRADO), experienced in 2010 in
three departments, which allows women the birth went well, and on a
voluntary basis, to be followed home by a midwife woman right out. "This
monitoring may take two days or more after delivery," said an official
of the CNAM.

Specifically, a representative of the CNAM comes to motherhood mothers
present a list of midwives (they are 3500 in France) that will accompany
them when they return home, but "the decision is always taken out by the
medical team, "she insists. "One or two visits are then made by the
midwife at home."

The project was expanded to eight counties in 2011 (Yvelines, Gard, Var,
Alpes-Maritimes, Maine-et-Loire, Rhône, Bas-Rhin, Isère) should be
generalized and progressively from 2012, first in 26 departments.

"In the long term, it is also uniform supported on the territories and
probably shorten maternity stays" because "there will be maternity where
it will encourage women to leave earlier," said Elizabeth Tarraga,
Assistant Secretary of the National Organization of Trade Unions of
midwives. The average length of stay for childbirth was 3.1 days in the
countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
and 4.3 days in France.

"It is also used to bypass the increasingly frequent hospitalization at
home, an expensive arrangement for health insurance and normally
reserved for pathological cases," said Jacqueline Lavillonnière,
president of the National Union of Trade Unions midwives.

But both unions have closely monitored the implementation of the device.
"We will ensure that it is really in the interest of patients, not just
Social Security," says Tarraga.