When Tristin Dockery was in labor with her first son in 2021, she only had one request: To get up and walk around her hospital room.
The nurse on duty said no.
So Dockery, then 20, stayed in her uncomfortable hospital bed as one contraction followed another. It was at the height of COVID. She and her husband were alone. And Dockery didn’t think she had much choice but to do as she was told…