Postpartum Reality: What Happens After You Give Birth?

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  @mariekraft2738 · 2 years ago · pinned

  Ms. Tina, <br>I’m a Child Passenger Safety Technician and noticed the video clip of baby in the car seat is incorrect. The chest clip isn’t in the correct place and the straps are too loose. However, thumbs up on having a blanket laying over baby. <br><br>On a different note, I wish I would have found your videos when I was expecting. I’m learning a lot about what was going on before, during, and after I have had my two little ones. Thank you for everything you do and for the education videos.

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  @dion789 · 1 year ago (edited)

  One thing I love in the Netherlands is that I believe we are unique in having postpartum care at home. Mothers usually go home within a few hours after giving birth. And then the first 8 days (or 10 if you had a c-section) a woman comes over for several hours a day and helps you with lots of things; your own physical recovery and teaching about hormonal changes, helping with breastfeeding, teaching you about how to care for your baby, helping you with measurements and explaining other things you need to do for your baby and do light house chores like the occasional wash or vacuuming. There&apos;s someone around every day for the first week to ask questions about lots of things.

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  @ShiningSakura · 2 years ago

  my postpartum journey was awful. Spent the first hours shivering hard core while being stitched up after a 3rd degree tear.... no golden hour at all. Then me with absolutely no feeling in my legs got wheeled into my room exhausted, falling asleep, colder than ever; when I finally got my baby to the brink of falling over tired after 48 hour labor and incoherent thoughts and nurses were bugging me to no end to have my golden hour finally...... I just told them to go away and let me sleep. My husband meanwhile spent that hour with our newborn and had a full on panic attack while I was sleeping because my brain and body was so fried. What a fantasy golden hour can be.....<br><br>Once up...... I could barely get out of the hospital bed to the bathroom even with assistance due to the emergency epidural dose from labor issues and nurses were quite short with me the whole time. I felt like a child being diapered up and my legs almost giving out constantly didn&apos;t help.<br><br> Lactation consultant was a lady squeezing my breast so hard I wanted to cry and shoving my babies mouth in and said Your all good and left me to my own devices...... my baby fell asleep within a minute everytime and had tongue tie so he was starving for 2 days and I din&apos;t know till I got another lactation lady who spent time explaining things to me and helped us out. Then had cluster feeding from hell day 2 and had no idea what was going on as our little one was clawing his eyes and face out for food and the hospital refused to give us any form of supplemental food as I wasn&apos;t providing enough and milk wasn&apos;t in. Baby lost too much weight and despite my pleadings they did nothing to help and we had to visit the pediatrician 2 times after hospital stay to check weight gain. Doctor was pissed they didn&apos;t at the least give us a formula sample out the hospital door. Fed is best .... not so at the hospital though it seems.<br><br><br>Spent an extra day at the hospital due to everything going on and only on the last day did we get the best nurses ever who actually cared, gave us a brief break for sleep, talked with us, and gave actual advice and a better lactation consultant our way to help. If not for them I would have lost my mind.

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  @mooshpit · 2 years ago (edited)

  DAMN! this process is so invasive. Thank you for being so thorough.

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  @shellcshells2902 · 2 years ago

  Please go into the postpartum depression in another video. Thank you 😊

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  @natashaguindon2517 · 2 years ago

  Other than the fundal massage, my nurses barely checked on me or my son. I had to ask to be checked on regularly, especially after I nearly passed out when getting up to change baby. They didn&apos;t show me or help me with breastfeeding. They took my son out of the room to show my husband how to change diapers and bathe the baby, I wasn&apos;t included in this. This was the RAH in Edmonton, which is supposed to be an excellent women&apos;s hospital.

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  @moo117 · 2 years ago

  Thank you, I’m having my first baby I’m due in two weeks and it’s nice to be informed

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  @natalieelskamp9677 · 2 years ago

  Just want to comment, I have 6 kids, 4 different hospitals, all natural births, and all of their policies were to check both baby and mom every 2 hours for the first 12 hours. I know because all my kids were born in the evening or overnight hours and i was checked all. Night. Long. I asked for less checks and they said no, it was policy. My 5th they checked is every hour, me one hour, baby the next. Even when I asked to put them together. It wasn&apos;t until my husband exploded on the nurse that we were left alone! 😂

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  @Shuon-nyarr · 1 year ago

  I would love a video on post partum depression and psychosis

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• AN

  @angelbowman1486 · 2 years ago

  U.K -My goodness so much helpful info, and points I need to research! Thank you so much!!!!<br>I am having to rely on a taxi home as I don’t have an appropriate vehicle. So I was worried about buying a car seat just for the ride home. But it turns out a newborn can ride on the lap so long as it’s back seat and in a licenced taxi. I didn’t believe it at first but turns out that is the case here.

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  @daniellesoucie2470 · 2 years ago

  Love your videos!!!!! I’m 36 weeks with my first baby and your videos are life saving

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  @strawberrykatnz · 8 months ago

  LOL strawberry blonde here, I chuckled when you said redheads scare you. Not going to lie, it was a bit of an evil chuckle hahaha they don&apos;t call us fiery for no reason. 😂😂😂 However, redheads don&apos;t take as well as some pain medication. Dentists have had to use anaesthetic injections, like double the number they would normally use when I had wisdom teeth removed and the two times I was under GA, I took 40 minutes longers than the average person to come to afterwards. I was told by my hairdresser that natural redhair takes 3 times longer to colour if we want highlights etc.