Wednesday, September 14, 2016

I remember

When Tia was born

And that idiot of a anesthesiologist

Gave me too much medicine during my cesarean

Even though I told him I react very sensitively to pain medicine

It took me over two days to just be able to walk or even just try to get out of bed without almost vomiting and passing out

Finally at what I think was the tale end of almost 48 hours without seeing my baby because they swept her off to the NICU

I was losing my mind

I had to see and touch my baby

I had only seen her for a second and it had been a blur

I hadn't even been able to look at all her features yet

Count her little toes

Say hello

I was really going to lose it

And when the nurse tried and failed again to get me out of bed

I had had it

I yelled at her

That I had to see my baby

That I had not seen her yet

And she abruptly moved mountains

Or called an orderly and a wheelchair (you decide)

To get me to my baby

You should not separate mother and child

The resources need to be in place

For them to stay together

AT the very LEAST

For the amount of time the mom is in the hospital too

Why this isn't common practice is horrendous

A country to rich

Yet leading in baby deaths

Gee. I wonder why. Idiots!

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