This work has the aim ofdeterminig the problems being confronted by the woman herself and a newly born baby. Furthermore, this work has, also, been planned to be an effective organisation of health services given by nurses to the women in the post-partum period by looking at the problems faced by women, who have done a vaginal birth and new-born care in the early post-partum period. This research was carried out at the Post-Partum Clinic of the Maternity Hospital at Sultan I İzzettin Keykavus State Hospital which is in the centre of Sivas and the home visits were carried out 72 hours after women are dischargedfrom this clinic. It was determined through home visits that the mothers had received information in some aspects about self-care and new-borns care in the post-partum period before being dischargedfrom the hospital but continuity of this information by carrying out home visits was notprovidedin the early post-partum period. It was ascertained that most mothers were discharged within 24 hours after giving birth and the maximium hospital stay was 32 hours. It was seen that none of the mothers received a visit from a health professional within the first three days after discharge. It was found that the mothers and the newborns had various problems during the early postpartum period and the infonnations they had received was insufficient to solve these problems.