Warning signs you need to get help for mom!

Warning signs you need to get help for mom!

POST -call 911

  • Pain in chest
  • Obstructed breathing/shortness of breath
  • Seizures

Thoughts of hurting self or others

BIRTH -call mom’s provider or 911 if your doctor is not available

Bleeding, soaking through a pad/hour or clots the size of an egg or larger

Incision not healing

Red or swollen leg that is warm to touch and painful

Temperature over 100.4 or under 96.8

Headache that doesn’t get better even after medication or with vision changes

*When you call, say “My partner had a baby on ___________ and she’s having ___________”