They said no. They said they wouldn't look at it because it's childbirth, so it's another misunderstanding about women's health, and they wouldn't even consider it.
I was literally hospitalized for extreme depression. I had to go for surgery. When they were counting down, I didn't want to be alive anymore. I told them I was in so much pain and my kids deserve better, and I woke to a social worker helping me apply for VAC and stuff, but they wouldn't even cover mental health supports when I was in the hospital while I was pregnant. I was having a complete mental breakdown because my nightmares were the worst when I was pregnant because it's the same traumatic experience to my insides that it was in my assault. It makes the nightmares and the night terrors flood back. I was in extreme pain, extreme poverty, struggling with a four-year-old and pregnant.
They still wouldn't cover the time that I was there, even after being on a ward at the rehabilitation program. They still wouldn't cover any of the treatments. They said it was because it was pregnancy-related, but it wasn't. They wouldn't even listen to my gynecologist at all. They prescribed me morphine when my son was born. The doctors don't prescribe that for just anybody.