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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is like my DH’s boss venting to him about how stressful it was doing a multi hundred thousand dollar whole-house remodel. She was spending on the remodel more than he makes in a year. Read the room lady. [/quote]

Most houses cost more than people make in a year.

People need to stop being so crabs in a bucket about this topic. We should normalize overnight care (family or paid) given the well documented connection between sleep deprivation and adverse mental health outcomes post-partum. We don’t tell people to tough it out or not brag about their luxuries when they have a therapist or other mental health professional, and people pay them a lot more than they do a night nurse over the course of a year.[/quote]

Was that what OP was doing? Because a night nurse costs upwards of $200 a night. So the biggest obstacle to people having night nurses is people affording night nurses. Not failure to hear about their colleague's night nurse.

And actually therapy is also a luxury in the United States and you should not brag about having access to good quality therapy, especially in the DC area where the best therapists don't even take insurance.

This conversation would be different if OP had been having a conversation about how important it is for new moms to get support and help so that they can sleep and take care of their mental health, and then a coworker randomly shamed her for it. That's not what happened, is it?

(I also think OP is a troll, but whatever)[/quote]

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