Introduction: This paper gives an overview of systematics of postpartum care for mother and a newborn child in a timeline of this aspect of care. It also gives a distinctive overview of outof- institutional postpartum care along with the institutional care, where the genesis of both types of care is tested. Procedures: With the help of the Internet search engine, the world literature was used which includes books and handbooks in English language. In the research database there are articles in the magazines and the newspapers. Authorized publications from databases Pubmed, ScienceDirect, Google Scholar, Scopus and Medline were used. Topic review: In the postpartum period the visit and the help from maternal and child health nurse is of a great importance. The role of maternal and child health nurse, in its central overview, has always included the checkup of newborn's weight, breastfeeding education, breastfeeding redintegration with the mother, dealing with breastfeeding problems and taking care of umbilical stump. The maternal and child health nurse also provides an overall supervision and care of the newborn baby and educates the mother. Besides this maternal and child health nurse's central role, corresponding communicational models, trainings and learning from real-life experiences maternal and child health nurse are recognized as unique channels that a nurse uses to enhance her/his competence, so a mother and a newborn baby get an increased quality of postpartum care. Conclusion: The research results indicate that it is possible to work on maternal and child health care nurse's competences with corresponding organizational action in the means of training, practice and simulation of possible problem situations that a nurse can find herself/himself in when working with a mother and a newborn baby. Proper communication between the maternal and child health nurse and the mother will contribute to understanding the dynamics of family surroundings, mother's and child's needs and it will make it possible to prevent the prospective harmful events, not only to properly recognize the symptomatology and only to act upon the latter.