The healthcare system is characterized by a shortage of resources and the need to manage them: a balance is constantly being sought in terms of the possibility of replacing the patient’s inpatient stay in favor of providing outpatient care. The author studies the issue of timing from the maternity hospital after an uncomplicated birth. Regulatory acts (no longer in force and currently in force) containing various requirements and instructions (as well as recommendations) regarding the length of stay of postpartum women in hospitals after childbirth were studied. More than 200 documents, including foreign ones, were analyzed. A tendency has been established to reduce the length of time a woman in labor spends in a maternity care facility (in the absence of complications of physiological labor or cesarean section), due to the improvement of social and living conditions and the development of outpatient services. At the same time, the mandatory requirements regarding the period of stay after obstetric care in a hospital must be brought into line with each other, including establishing a minimum period of stay. In addition, a unified procedure for monitoring newborns after early discharge should be approved as mandatory requirements, with subsequent monitoring of their implementation by both insurance companies and government agencies.