The American myth of motherhood is that once the baby is born, everyone lives happily ever after. But, according to this renowned maternity nurse, the myth suffers from misstatement, understatement, and wholesale neglect. While much attention has been paid to antepartal services and miracles are routine at delivery, the big failure, she says, is in the postpartum period.
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Reva Rubin (1975) studied this question.