The survey of 1,346 mothers, carried out by Bounty Parenting Club and commissioned by 4Children, also found that two-thirds of mothers see a health visitor for less than two months after the birth.
Mothers from low-income families are less likely than those from well-off backgrounds to see a health visitor in the months after their baby is born.
Nine in ten women saw a midwife during their pregnancy, but four in ten said that seeing the same midwife could have improved their experience of pregnancy.
They also said that more frequent and less rushed appointments would have made a difference.
Of mothers that were seeing a health visitor four months after the birth, 22 per cent of better-off mothers were still seeing a health visitor, compared to 18 per cent of mothers from poorer backgrounds.
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