I give birth in a few months. For the first 12-24 hours you are at increased risk of postpartum hemorrhage, and I am at further risk due to anatomical defect and a potential for c section. However, hospitals also stop closely monitoring you after about an hour and send you off to "recovery", where you are barely watched and most checks are done to the baby.
The plan is simple. Once I am in recovery, part of the plan is for them to start to cluster maternal care and checks, which means every 1+ hours instead of every 15 minutes like it is before recovery. I can also further push this out by explaining that I have bipolar disorder and need help getting extra "sleep" in order to avoid a manic episode. My therapist and psychiatrist will be more than willing to write support documents to help me make this case as they are already very concerned with my mental state postpartum.
Aspirin is a huge no-no postpartum, as it has the effect of damaging platelets, which cannot be reversed, and they're not checking platelets again after the initial CBC work up when you come in. Therefore, it's a perfect vector for slipping through the cracks unnoticed.
After taking a truly heroic dose of aspirin, or even a normal one at the maximum range, I takes about an hour for the full platelet damaging effects to commence. That, coupled with the inherent risks of me and my particular health concerns causing a 2-3x higher risk of hemorrhage, should hopefully push me over the edge into bleeding out, as well as no maternal monitoring and less frequent checks, and a husband who will be very busy with taking pictures of the baby and talking to his family while I "rest".
My reason for doing this in the hospital is simple - it's the safest place for my baby to be when I die, and they likely will chalk a postpartum hemorrhage up to birth complications and not dig deeper, so it will look like a totally normal death and allow my husband to collect my life insurance, which will help set him and my child up for success in the future. And by damaging the platelets themselves, and by likely receiving opioids to help compound the effects, my blood will be unable to clot and it doesn't matter what they do to try to save me.
My baby will be safe, financially taken care of, and this whole thing will be a tragic accident.
Helpfully, the time of year I am giving birth is also a very low staffed part of the year in hospitals, so there will be even less nurses to be doing checks and I will be even more left alone. They likely will not have the staff on hand to manage this.
As a note, a woman experiencing a hemorrhage postpartum can fully bleed out within 10 minutes! So my timeline is in the best case 40 minutes!
The plan is simple. Once I am in recovery, part of the plan is for them to start to cluster maternal care and checks, which means every 1+ hours instead of every 15 minutes like it is before recovery. I can also further push this out by explaining that I have bipolar disorder and need help getting extra "sleep" in order to avoid a manic episode. My therapist and psychiatrist will be more than willing to write support documents to help me make this case as they are already very concerned with my mental state postpartum.
Aspirin is a huge no-no postpartum, as it has the effect of damaging platelets, which cannot be reversed, and they're not checking platelets again after the initial CBC work up when you come in. Therefore, it's a perfect vector for slipping through the cracks unnoticed.
After taking a truly heroic dose of aspirin, or even a normal one at the maximum range, I takes about an hour for the full platelet damaging effects to commence. That, coupled with the inherent risks of me and my particular health concerns causing a 2-3x higher risk of hemorrhage, should hopefully push me over the edge into bleeding out, as well as no maternal monitoring and less frequent checks, and a husband who will be very busy with taking pictures of the baby and talking to his family while I "rest".
My reason for doing this in the hospital is simple - it's the safest place for my baby to be when I die, and they likely will chalk a postpartum hemorrhage up to birth complications and not dig deeper, so it will look like a totally normal death and allow my husband to collect my life insurance, which will help set him and my child up for success in the future. And by damaging the platelets themselves, and by likely receiving opioids to help compound the effects, my blood will be unable to clot and it doesn't matter what they do to try to save me.
My baby will be safe, financially taken care of, and this whole thing will be a tragic accident.
Helpfully, the time of year I am giving birth is also a very low staffed part of the year in hospitals, so there will be even less nurses to be doing checks and I will be even more left alone. They likely will not have the staff on hand to manage this.
As a note, a woman experiencing a hemorrhage postpartum can fully bleed out within 10 minutes! So my timeline is in the best case 40 minutes!
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