Here’s to the nurses who took care of me in the hospital after I gave birth

Nurses are indispensable. I know, because I am one, and I know how hard we work. But there’s something about being on a labor and delivery unit, working closely with women who are enduring the most vulnerable moments of their lives, that brings new meaning to care. My own birth experience was unexpected, and it left me with a trauma I battled for the next…

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