Am I A Terrible Person?

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@Casey_03 Mind if I tell you a short story that might answer your question?

I went through a very traumatic delivery and was outside of the hospital smoking when a nurse came up to chastise me for smoking. I told her the story of everything I had just been through and she told me, "Never in my life did I think I would meet someone who had a justifiable reason for smoking. For you, not smoking right now would be unfair to both you and the baby. your baby needs you strong and calm right now and if smoking helps, so be it."

She then proceeded to walk up to another smoker take the cigarette out of the other person mouth and stomped on it. Pointed to me and said "She can smoke, you can't."

I think she would have approved of you smoking right now as well.

 

[Powder]

I don't know if they told you this, but crying a lot for a couple weeks post birth is due to hormones dropping off big time.

It's not postpartum unless it continues or if you have suicidal or destructive or depression thoughts, etc. but let a Dr. decide if it comes to that, obviously.

Just wished someone told me that crying and feeling like my "life" as I knew it was now "over" for two weeks, off an on, was not crazy.

 

[Powder]

I think what you've been through is terrible. That's all.