As MummyNaomi said sometimes visitors can create work, it's awful having to comfort someone that only has half a clue what's going on. So I guess it depends on her family and the relationship she has with them.. Visitors should be there for the Mother, not the baby if that makes sense..

With the twins I didn't have many visitors and when they died I regretted it. Not many people got to meet them, so they didn't seem 'real' to some people. With J I had lots of visitors because I was terrified he was going to die. The best visitors were ones that came, saw, told me how gorgeous he was, what a fantastic job I was doing then left a meal on the way out Ones that didn't demand ANYTHING of me.