Although Italy’s health service ranks among the most highly regarded worldwide, there are numerous “uncovered” areas, usually more due to a lack of adequate organizational supports than expertise. These certainly include postpartum care with regard to women’s mental and physical well-being.

Separated parents and the holiday season
The Christmas vacation season, with the array of decorations and advertising icons and all the rhetoric of family and good feelings that accompany them, can prove at times and for some a kind of emotional "trap."