This is why my wife almost died in the US. We left the hospital after two days, and were left to fend for ourselves. We were so busy with the newborn that we di

This is why my wife almost died in the US. We left the hospital after two days, and were left to fend for ourselves. We were so busy with the newborn that we didn't notice that my wife was developing an infection. By the time she fainted from a sudden high fever, it turned out she had a uterine infection. And after lying on a stretcher in the ER for 14 hours with not so much as a glass of water, she had a full-blown septicemia. None of this would have happened with midwife visits at home (like we had in Germany for the second child). They check on the mother as well as the baby.