[Organization of a post-partum home care service. Five years' experience of the university service of the Gynecology, Obstetrics and Mastology Center of the Forest of Abbaye and Hesbaye Hospital]. / A propos de l'organisation d'un service de post-partum à domicile. Cinq années d'expérience du Service universitaire de Gynécologie, d'Obstétrique et de Sénologie du Centre hospitalier du Bois de l'Abbaye et de Hesbaye.

In compliance with new ministerial directives, maternity clinics had no choice but to reduce the average stay of mothers and their newborns. This change also reflected the preference of young parents. In order to respond to these organisational and educational challenges and to ensure the optimal medical attention for mothers and infants--our Obstetrics Service decided to create a Post-partum Service for the outpatients at home. Carried out in tandem with the family doctors the service began in August 1994. This paper describes our past 5 year experience.