Explosion in the number of domestic and parental chores, fatigue, less time for oneself… The birth of a child has the effect of a tornado in the house sowing chaos and exhausting the couple and especially the mothers.
In the fourth episode of Sage-Meuf, the podcast that tells the crazy adventure of birth, Anna Roy, midwife for ten years and columnist in the Maison des maternelles on France 4, tells you about the explosion caused by the arrival of a child in everyday life.
She gives the floor to one of her patients, Samantha and Coline Charpentier, at the origin of the instagram account "T'as thought à", on the mental load.
Having a child is mind-blowing both figuratively and literally.
The arrival of a baby turns the daily life of parents upside down.
It takes between four and five hours of parental work per day for the couple, but the days do not get longer ... And this multiplication of tasks concerns mothers even more (3 hours per day) than fathers (1h20 per day). day).
In the fourth episode of Sage-Meuf, Anna Roy, midwife and columnist at the Maison des Maternelles on France 4, gives the floor to Samantha, active mother of three children, and to Coline Charpentier.
This teacher and mother of a little boy created the Instagram account "You Thought Of" for women to share their experience of the mental burden.
How to manage the return to work?
How to distribute the tasks fairly between the couple?
How can we also share this famous mental load?
Anna and Coline give you their advice to make the most of your child's first years.
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Author and presentation: Anna Roy
Production: Adèle Ponticelli
Director: Charlène Nouyoux
Edition and distribution: Clémence Olivier
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