[Preliminary data on early discharge after delivery].

Puerpera and baby's early discharging falls within a bigger project that deals with the reduction of medical treatment and with the razionalization of economic resources. We can talk about early discharging when it occurs by 48 hours after a vaginal childbirth and by 96 hours after a cesarean section. When the mother and the baby have been discharged from hospital, their health will chiefly depend on the efficiency of the sanitary organization that works on the territory. If the nursing service at home is competent and specialized, the stay in hospital will get shorter and shorter. The most deepen studies about early discharging after vaginal childbirth agree upon the lack of any risk both for the mother and for the baby. Early discharging is possible without any risk for the mother's health after a cesarean section as well, but only if the woman is well-disposed, if she is at low risk, if she answers to predetermined criteria of eligibility, and if she has an adequate follow-up when she comes back home. On the basis of these evidences, we have traced a clinical outline that draws the early discharging in obstetrics that, in the last five years, has led to a progressive reduction of the stay in hospital both after vaginal childbirth and after cesarean section.