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Article: Services crop up to provide support, education to new mothers.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- August 22, 1995
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MIAMI _ When Ileana Rodriguez gave birth to her son Gabriel three years ago, she stayed in the hospital for two days and two nights _ resting, learning baby care, asking a million questions.
Early this month, she left the same hospital with her second child just 24 hours after delivering little Lauren.
``If this was my first child, I'd be freaking to be discharged so soon,'' she says. ``There's so much you don't know.''
Cost-cutting is sending new mothers and babies home from the hospital faster than ever, sometimes while still groggy from medication and before breast-feeding is well established.
The early-discharge policies are so ...