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Postpartum hospital discharges -- when is the 'right time?'

This landmark nationwide study is the first ever to prospectively examine the decision-making process of over 4,000 mothers and their physicians around the readiness of mothers and their infants to leave the hospital after childbirth and finds that 17 percent are unready.

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