Australia offers world-class prenatal care but at the most difficult transition of our lives – after childbirth – it leaves us to fend for ourselves
In my nine months of pregnancy, I had more medical appointments than I remember having in my previous 35 years of life. When I told my GP I was pregnant, I received a stack of blood test and ultrasound referral forms, and once I selected an obstetrician this stack of forms became a weekly occurrence.
Despite the fact I never returned an abnormal result on any of the dozens of tests I had between conceiving and giving birth to my son, the tests just seemed to beget more tests, like some kind of medical Tough Mudder course full of elaborate obstacles I had to jump over – or waddle over with increasing difficulty – to earn the ultimate prize of having a baby.
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