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- Life or death. Deena Shakir was eight days postpartum with her third child last September when she got a bad headache. It didn't feel normal. "It felt like a helmet was squeezing my brain," she remembers.
Just over a week after a C-section, Shakir still didn't think her headache was an emergency. "Everything feels weird" after a C-section anyway, she thought. But as an investor at the venture capital firm Lux Capital who specializes in women's health, Shakir vaguely recalled hearing that if you have a headache when you're postpartum, you should take your blood pressure. She dug up a blood pressure cuff she'd bought for her parents in the height of COVID. "My blood pressure was literally off the chart," she recalls.
