"I wonder how she will reveal her knowledge without garnering undesirable attention and questions about how she knows."
*Reads this chapter*
"Or she'll just say it out of nowhere."
Honestly I think the nurse has a responsibility to push harder for her to seek more support. There is a very real danger to her and her baby's lives when it comes to postpartum depression.
My new theory is that the writer is trapped in a really shitty contract that would screw them over of they backed out on this, so that are just making it as batshit insane/terrible as they can in the hopes that the publisher will back out instead. Really the only thing that makes sense at this...