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Keshia Knight Pulliam Says A Hospital Worker Mistook Her As A Mother In Need After Giving Birth

<p>Recently we all learned that actress Keshia Knight Pulliam gave birth to her baby girl Ella Grace&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The actress talked about her labor and delivery experience during a new episode of her podcast &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Kandidly Keisha&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <em><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eonline&period;com&sol;news&sol;826694&sol;keshia-knight-pulliam-says-hospital-worker-mistook-her-for-a-poor-mother-in-need-after-she-gave-birth">E News<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; while speaking about her experience&comma; she talked about how a lactation specialist had mistaken her for a mother that was in need after giving birth to her baby girl&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Bless this old little lady&&num;8217&semi;s heart&period; This old little white lady&&num;8230&semi;she&&num;8217&semi;s like about 70 years old&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Keshia pointed out that the specialist handed her a pamphlet&comma; which is a part of the hospitals standard procedure for new mothers&period; However&comma; she said that the specialist turned to a certain page that listed about 30 different numbers and resources for mothers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Keshia felt offended when the specialist said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Yes we have some great programs that you may want to take advantage of that you may need&period; Um&comma; WIC is a great program&period; I don’t know if you have insurance&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Keshia then continued&comma; &&num;8220&semi;So I guess she saw this little black girl with the little baby by herself and on the door&comma; I didn&&num;8217&semi;t realize that they&&num;8217&semi;d put like a faux last name and the last name was Brown&period; So I guess she saw &&num;8216&semi;Miss Brown&&num;8217&semi; and was like&comma; She probably needs some WIC&period;'&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She then stopped the lady and let her know that she has excellent insurance&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I get it&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s about showing the services that are offered&period; And I probably wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have been offended had she &lbrack;pointed out&rsqb; several of the services &lbrack;and not just&rsqb; WIC and the fact that &&num;8216&semi;if you don&&num;8217&semi;t have insurance&comma;” said Pulliam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Needless to say&comma; her doula was also on hand following the delivery and requested another lactation specialist&comma; after she claims the first specialist didn&&num;8217&semi;t want to touch her to show her how to properly breastfeed her baby&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Check out the podcast episode <em><strong><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www1&period;play&period;it&sol;audio&sol;kandidly-keshia&sol;">here<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source<&sol;strong>&colon;<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eonline&period;com&sol;news&sol;826694&sol;keshia-knight-pulliam-says-hospital-worker-mistook-her-for-a-poor-mother-in-need-after-she-gave-birth"> http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eonline&period;com&sol;news&sol;826694&sol;keshia-knight-pulliam-says-hospital-worker-mistook-her-for-a-poor-mother-in-need-after-she-gave-birth<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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