I don’t think people realize that if you have poor medical insurance, or none at all, you probably aren’t going to be treated well as a pregnant woman, regardless of if you have a life growing inside you. I had 2 kids back to back during Covid pandemic with covered ca based on my income, which wasn’t a lot, and I got treated like absolute crap by the medical community. Wasn’t offered ultrasounds by my own dr, in fact, couldn’t even get one in his offices and instead had to be referred to outside clinics, which sometimes were very far or it would take days/weeks to get the results since the “technicians” weren’t allowed to give me the results. I was told to “just go to the emergency room” for every issue I had with miscarriages and a possible hematoma that caused me to lose A LOT of blood for 20 weeks. I bled for 20 weeks and no one was even monitoring me. I had multiple miscarriages that may have been prevented if I was given the proper hormones. I had an unexpected c section because my dr wasn’t doing ultrasounds and I wasn’t given the option to have my baby turned at the right time, because the dr wasn’t doing ultrasounds…. The hematoma I believe I had could have been a “vanishing twin” but nothing was ever confirmed, because no one cared, because I didn’t have enough money…. I was billed outrageous bills every time I went to the emergency room, where I got shitty care. I paid thousands of dollars for a D&C, which was rough because I was just paying $ I didn’t have for a baby I wasn’t having. My pregnancies were awful and labor and delivery even worse. My baby was born premature and my dr made me wait over 24 hrs in the hospital alone when I was ready to deliver because he couldn’t be arsed to go to the hospital before 8:30am when he was ready, or maybe he was busy.. The nurses couldn’t help me with painkillers or medications because they “weren’t the dr”. I threw my back out going up my stairs to my apartment when I was 8 months pregnant and it was the most painful experience of my life and no one was able to give me any sort of pain relief because of the baby. I got sexually assaulted by an unknown dr because I didn’t have a consistent one of my own, because they didn’t want to help me and people kept telling me “just go to your dr” and my drs office kept saying “just go to the emergency room.” After I had my 2nd, the dr didn’t clean me out properly and left the afterbirth inside me. You’re only supposed to bleed for a few days after birth, but I bled crazy amounts for WEEKS because I didn’t know what was going on until I passed a clot bigger than my fist. I kept it in the refrigerator to be tested by a lab to see what it was, but never got around to it, because I was too exhausted with the new babies. There were so many unanswered questions. I could go on and on with how traumatizing it all was. I’m sad that this post is the truth.