Mom’s Viral Post About Lack of Postpartum Care is 100% Spot On

As I talked to my other new mom friends about my experience, I realized that the postpartum care nurse who had visited my home was a rarity. Virtually none of my peers had had anyone come and check up on them after they had a baby. They all saw their doctor about six weeks later for a postpartum checkup, as is sadly the norm in our society.

When I had my next baby, it was a planned cesarean sections. No complications, no long hospital stay, and no visiting nurse. I am really not sure, looking back, if the lack of postpartum care nurse was because of an insurance change or simply because I had a “normal” delivery this time. Weeks later, I found myself in the pediatrician’s office crying my eyes out not about my newborn, but about my sick toddler. My son’s pediatrician was so concerned about me that he suggested that I contact my doctor. Here was a medical professional who thought this new mom might need help, but unfortunately he was not equipped to help me. And my next doctor’s appointment wasn’t for another month. Luckily, my situation was extreme exhaustion from a newborn who didn’t sleep and nursed around the clock and a very cranky sick toddler who had physically hurt my recently-surgeried body by throwing a tantrum in the doctor’s office waiting room, and not postpartum depression.


Jenny Rapson
Jenny Rapson
Jenny is a follower of Christ, a wife and mom of three from Ohio and a freelance writer and editor.

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