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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find this article frustrating.

It's poorly organized, with the appalling medical policy stuff buried among paragraphs of the tearjerker story. It's horrible, what happened to that family, but I think that including the whole back story of it really detracts from the substance of the article.

I think that most women receive totally inadequate postpartum care. The women who get great postpartum care seem to almost always arrange it themselves. Women hire postpartum doulas and night nurses to help them after the baby is born. Medically, we are basically on our own between discharge and a follow up appointment in 6 weeks. If something develops between discharge and 6 weeks, it's on us to notice it, and most of us do not have the medical training to do so. People spend months talking about how incoherent and exhausting the newborn phase is, and I think that most women are totally unprepared for real complications.

I wish the article had focused more on that and less on extreme medical issues in the hospital.[/quote]

Lol have you ever read a news article before? Most follow this pattern.[/quote]

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