Cardiac patients get a debrief. New mothers don’t.
After almost any major medical event, someone walks you through what happened. A surgeon explains the procedure, a cardiologist reviews test results, and even a routine outpatient visit ends with some version of: here’s what we found, here’s what it means, here’s what’s next.
After birth, that conversation often doesn’t happen at all.
I had a birth that didn’t go the way anyone planned. There were interventions I didn’t fully understand in …
Cardiac patients get a debrief. New mothers don’t.
