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“Why do women get postpartum depression anyway? I mean, they have a baby…

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“Why do women get postpartum depression anyway? I mean, they have a baby now!”“Why do women need maternity leave? They can bond with the baby after work”Umm idk because there is a giant tear running from their vag to their butthole and they’re cramping and bleeding for several weeks while their uterus contracts back down from 800 times its normal size and they can’t take a shit and hemeroids and urinary catheters because their ripped up vulva is too swollen to pee through and cracked, bleeding nipples, and a crying infant that needs to feed from said cracked nipples 12 times a day and needs its diaper changed about that much too.Do people not get that childbirth is horrifying? Like, just…