More research is needed to find out if it's too fast.
Hospital stays after cesarean sections can be as short as two or three days.
Follow up outside the hospital varies from plan to plan. Dictating the length of hospital stays to save money may be business as usual for health plans. But so is defending motherhood and children for politicians. And legislators, unlike patients, can actually do something about it. Maryland and New Jersey have passed 48-hour minimum hospital stay laws and other states are considering them.