Hospitals across the country are changing their visitation policies for patients—including for. Pregnant women across the country are scared they might have to go through labor and delivery without their partners. Several women have spoken out against these policies, and now, model and new mom Ashley Graham is adding her name to that list.
She says in the video, while breastfeeding Isaac, “So now due to COVID-19, there are some hospitals in New York City that are not allowing mothers to have their significant others there in the room while they’re delivering — which means mothers will not have a support system when they’re actually delivering their child. And I understand that hospitals have to protect their staff, they have to protect the patients, the mothers, the children, and everybody else who’s there.
Graham then continues to say that if she hadn’t had someone to look in her eyes and tell her she could do it, she would have had a much different laboring process. “I do believe that we need to continue to stay home, to really ‘flatten the curve,’ but bringing life into the world is a whole other conversation,” she says, continuing to discuss that a big part of the problem includes the lack of PPE healthcare workers need.
She ends the video by asking fans to help support initiatives working to supply PPE to healthcare workers and encouraging them to sign a petition on. The petition asks New York-Presbyterian hospital, who earlier this week took the strict stance of banning all partners and support people from the labor and delivery unit, to change its policy.
“For all the mothers out there, I’m thinking of you, I love you, and remember that you are not alone,” Graham says at the end of the video.
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