That used to be standard in the US. The other side of the coin is that the US pushes people out of hospitals before they are ready to go. It took a law to make insurance companies allow new mothers to even stay in the hospital for 24 hours after delivery, because the insurance companies figured the mother woudl be fine if there were no complications with the birth. The law got pushed through because the baby should be monitored for 24 hours, because that's when most problems crop up.