Idk if I should be mad or relieved

So I knew ahead of time that the NICU team would be coming into the room as my baby crowned because when they broke my water Meconium came out. So he’s born, and put in my chest. A couple min later he’s taken to the other side of the room to get checked out. They bring him back and let me feed him before they take him to the NICU (I was told they were taking him to the nursery to get antibiotics- I assumed because of the meconium). I see them hooking something new up to my iv but assume it’s just fluids. I’m then told I have a fever but I’m fine.

So a few days later we are discharged. Nothing was ever said again about me having a fever. They told me he had received antibiotics because he had a fever too. We are both fine now.

The next day we went to the pediatrician (they told us in the hospital to make an appointment the day after we got discharged) and the pediatrician is going over everything with us that was sent over from the hospital.

He looks at me and says oh it looks like you had chorioamnionitis. I had never heard the word before. I just told him oh I don’t know, the only thing they told me was that I had a slight fever but I was fine and that he had a fever they gave him meds for. He just looked at me like he was frustrated (I’m assuming with the hospital because he’s a really nice guy- he was mine and my brothers pediatrician). So he gives me a copy of the info the hospital sent him and sure enough that’s what it says. I get home and check my discharge papers and nothing about it on there. I double checked with my husband because I had just had a baby and figured maybe they told me and I didn’t remember, but he said they never said anything.

I’m glad I wasn’t stressed about it but you’d think they’d have to tell me at some point about it

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