Two mothers share their harrowing postpartum stories — and how they got help
Two mothers share their harrowing postpartum stories — and how they got help
Everything started out so normal, so blissfully normal, that I still can’t believe how drastically and quickly it all unraveled.
B’chasdei Hashem, I gave birth to my beautiful, healthy eight-pound bechor nearly five years ago. After the delivery, I was overwhelmed with hakaras hatov. I remember thinking that my life was perfect. All the pieces of the puzzle had come together, and now my husband Gavi and I had become a real family unit with the birth of our son; a perfectly exhausted set of parents with a new life to take care of.
After the high of my birth experience, I was moved to the recovery section of the hospital for two days. The care there was abysmal. I barely slept during my hospital stay — doctors and nurses were constantly in and out of my room, interrupting any semblance of routine.
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