Postpartum Experience in Hospital

[Anonymous]

Agree with advocating when you need to. I had preeclampsia and so after delivery was having my blood pressure checked all the time. It was never during a quiet or serene moment in my case so was always high.

At one point I had 7 people in the room with me: my husband holding the crying baby that couldn’t latch and talking to the LC; the pediatrician telling me we had to stay another day because my preemie has failed the car seat test; an orderly picking up the meal tray; the lovely but underemployed janitor who kept emptying the garbage on the hour; and the nurse admonishing me for not relaxing as she took my BP. I finally snapped and said “ I need everybody to get out of here so I can get a normal blood pressure reading so I can leave this hospital ASAP.”