Thread by @liuba4congress

This was 2 wks postpartum, a few hrs before I spiked a 105 fever & nearly fell unconscious home alone with 2 babies.

I was alone bc Chris was out of #paidleave & had gone back to work. Luckily I called a friend to get me to the hospital before I passed out.

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I had retained placenta from Nicholas’ birth & got a massive infection. I was hospitalized for 1wk & then sent home with IV antibiotics for a week after that.

So at 4wks postpartum, I was sick as a dog, with an IV in, nursing two babies. (2/6)

I was in no shape to put on some pants, hand over my infant to strangers, and head into the office.

And yet that is what America women do every day. (3/6)

Childbirth is no joke. Recovery is no joke. Paid leave is not a vacation.

We are sending women bleeding, swollen, in stitches, in agony back to offices across this country.

We are sending infants to exorbitantly expensive, overworked, understaffed childcare centers. (4/6)

We are the wealthiest nation in the world. American billionaires added more than $1 trillion to their wealth during the pandemic, and we STILL can’t pass #paidleave.

We have the money. We don’t have the willpower. We don’t have enough moms in Congress. (5/6)

We have the WORST maternal mortality rate in the industrialized world and we are the only country other than Papua New Guinea without paid leave.

Our policies are made by men for men.

We need to #ElectMoms & change the damn country!

@VoteMamaUS @VoteMamaFdn (6/6)