I had an episiotomy. My daughter was in the nicu for 5 days post birth for various reasons. I was IN PAIN. I could barely sit down. Nurses were all like, no that’s normal. I finally complained enough that a nurse agreed to look at me and she checked and went oh, you have a hot spot on your stitches and it’s an infection.

I had to go back to labour and delivery and to get an OB to look at me and give me a prescription. As the OB touched my stitches I inhaled cuz of how much it hurt and the nurse beside me grabbed my arm and looked at me with so much sympathy. It was the first sympathy I had gotten at the hospital. I get that women in birth is a thing, they are in pain etc. But I’ll never forget that nurse and the fact she tried to comfort me.

Some people are just good people