Susan believes that the stress from legal issues at work may have caused high blood pressure and an early birth, which further affected her mental health.

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Interviwer: And the delivery situation that you described that once you delivered that everything would be okay again. Was there anything in the delivery related to your mental health?

Yeah. I think so. When I was, so I had her I think it was maybe three weeks early and I went in for my regular appointment at the midwife’s and they took my blood pressure and it was very high. So they wanted me to come back the next day and have it taken again. So I did, and it was high again and so the same with the next day, so on the third day they referred me to the OB at the hospital and they wanted me to go there that afternoon at 3:00 and have that checked out just in case because it was a bit too high for their liking.

So I went that day and they said that either one of two things would happen. I would either be induced or they would send me home and just monitor me for the next while. And I’m thinking there’s no way they’re going to induce me, like I’ll be fine, whatever. So I went in that afternoon and I didn’t come back out. So they had me on the blood pressure monitor for about five hours and every time they took my blood pressure, which was like every ten minutes, it was way too high for them. So finally the OB comes back in and he says okay, we’re going to induce you and I was like, oh, okay. So I was very worried that, obviously this is three weeks early and I’m not prepared, all that kind of stuff and they think that my high blood pressure was due to the anxiety that had to do with some legal stuff that was happening with the job.

So all of that contributed to everything. My daughter was born the next day. The delivery itself was easy I guess, as easy as it could be. It was pretty good.

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