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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having a baby is hard work.  Whoever told you it was a vacation?  Years ago women stayed in hospital two weeks after giving birth but that was before greedy insurance companies took over the medical profession.  Sadly, the populace lemmings followed these avaricious companies over the cliff.

We have so many reasons to have a 2nd revolution in the U.S.[/quote]

I am very close to my grandmas who gave birth in the 1950s. It was horrendous. They were required to stay in the hospital 10 days. They begged to leave. My one grandma said that she'd have milk leaking down her hospital gown and would beg to nurse her baby and was told it was "dirty". She'd get the doctors to tell the nurses to bring her babies to her, but the nurses would feed the babies right beforehand so that they weren't hungry. Clearly she's still upset about it 70 years later. She was also very poor and they got the babies hooked on formula during the hospital stays. They had trouble affording feeding their babies when they got home. She told me she fed them pet milk and sugar. She made installment payments on her hospital stay.

My other grandma couldn't afford the hospital so she had all 5 of her babies at home in the 1950s. Midwives helped her give birth. Female relatives helped her in labor and postpartum.

I'm still upset about my 3 births. I don't think the awfulness of postpartum can be blamed on insurance companies. Hospitals thought that mess up on their own. [/quote]

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