Yep, it's normal in most areas if it's your first baby. Like the above poster said, they give you your red book (baby's health record) so you can bring it to the birth with you for the midwives to fill in and answer any questions (like about breastfeeding, sleeping, the first few days, etc.). Also, for anyone outside the UK (I'm originally from the U.S. where we unfortunately don't have these sorts of things). A health visitor is a pediatric nurse who comes to your house to do all your early well baby visits. I think in the U.S. we tend to think anyone who comes to your house is social services, but it's not at all like that here. They just like to do those first visits at home since you are still recovering and your baby is still so small it's not great to expose them to all the sick people at the doctor's office. I love my health visitor. She's been so helpful and I've cried my eyes out to her many times in the early days when I was just exhausted and feeling overwhelmed.
