Giving birth to a child, juggling with fatigue, the loss of hormones and hair, nerves on edge and the pain and discomfort linked to childbirth. Welcome to the postpartum world, where you change your own diapers in addition to those of your baby. If the joys of motherhood and the discovery of her baby are incredible, the consequences of diapers are the less glamorous and overlooked part of birth. Blues, painful breasts and vagina, uterine contractions, bleeding that can last for weeks after childbirth, constipation, episiotomy, cesarean scar, urinary leakage and other nipple cracks, we don't really talk about that. Not even with his mother, sisters or close friends. And that is perhaps where one of the most tenacious medical taboos resides: in the postpartum period.
A few days ago, an advertisement showing a woman wearing a diaper after giving birth was deemed to be too raw, and was therefore deprived of television broadcast during the Oscar ad break in the United States. Silence, embarrassment, shame: postpartum is not a subject that is easily tackled. It is to fight against this taboo that the model Ashley Graham, young mother of a baby born in January, posted on Instagram a photo of her wearing a diaper suitable for this post-delivery period and thus captioned: “ Raise your hand if you didn't know that you would also change your own diapers. ” A way to approach without subject and with humor a subject passed over in silence and which has done good to many mothers (rest assured, we do not systematically have the full package of postpartum inconveniences, this can also rather go well !). On social networks in recent days, the hashtag #MonPostPartum has appeared and is already making it possible to free up speech on this period that all women live after giving birth.
You are a young mother, did you know what would await you in the days and weeks following your birth? What inconvenience did you have? What was the most difficult to live during this period? Have you asked / had help? Did the women around you - family and friends - tell you about their experiences during their postpartum period? Did your midwife prepare you for it? Tell us.
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