by Laura Falin posted in Parenting

Last week, Jessica Porten went to her first OB appointment since having her baby (4 long months after having her baby because her office kept rescheduling.) She told her nurse practitioner that she had postpartum depression and fits of anger, and she wanted to talk about medication. She stressed that she had a good support system at home and that she and her baby were not in danger, but she wanted some resources to cope.
And then they called the cops on her.
You can read her entire account on her Facebook page here:

The entire ordeal is chilling to read. It's chilling to imagine being alone at a doctor's office with your baby and being sent without warning (and with a police escort) to the ER. It's chilling to imagine the long wait in the ER (with a baby you didn't plan on having out that late). It's chilling to know that, after her entire afternoon and evening there, she is given only the following and sent home: "The social worker hands me some papers and discusses the information in them, telling me she thinks these ?will probably be good resources for you."
I leave the ER at midnight, my spirit more broken than ever, no medication, no follow up appointment, never spoke to a doctor. This was a 10 hour ordeal that I had to go through all while caring for my infant that I had with me. And that?s it. That?s what I got for telling my OB that I have PPD and I need help. I was treated like a criminal and then discharged with no...