#Jesuismaltraitante: the appeal of Anna Roy, midwife, for more resources in hospitals

It is a solemn appeal addressed to Emmanuel Macron and Olivier Véran that launches Monday on Europe 1, Anna Roy, midwife, author of the podcast Europe 1 Studio "Sage-Meuf" and columnist at the

on France 4. She asks for a midwife for every woman who gives birth.

And denounces the mistreatment that results from the current overload of work.

Abuse of which she herself was guilty. 

Anna Roy reminds us of the working conditions of midwives in the hospital: 12-hour guards, during which they have to take care of 3 to 4 women who give birth at the same time, not to mention emergencies ...

It was after the production of the 7th episode of the podcast dedicated to birth on the midwife side that she became aware.

In this episode, his colleague Adrien Gantois, the president of the National College of Midwives, confides in a traumatic custody during which he left a single woman alone to give birth to her dead child.

And when I publish an Instagram post to promote this episode on social networks, everything goes back.

Anna remembers a guard where she too was abused.

"I was the one who was mistreating"

"That day, I welcome a lovely couple. They are in their thirties, adorable. I wanted to accompany them even if there was a crazy job. But the situation quickly gets complicated," recalls Anna Roy.

"I put the monitoring on and I come across a very pathological fetal heartbeat. I quickly see that it is not going at all and the obstetrician confirms to me that we have to give up quickly. The waiting room is full. crack, but I'm going anyway. We are giving birth to this child, who is going very badly at the time but who manages to get away with it. " 

But to take care of this child, the midwife must leave her parents, alone, in deep disarray.

"I remember not taking care of the pain of this woman who had just had a caesarean. I left her lying around in sanitary napkins soaked in blood that could not be changed, neither me nor them. nurses, nor the nursing assistants who were present. "

Anna also has to "abandon" other patients.

"I did not take care of a woman who gave birth without an epidural and who had come alone because her husband had left her during the pregnancy. Finally, I did not take care of a woman whose labor was not progressing. .I would have had to take her to the bathroom, to 'posture' her, to administer medicine to her ... all that I did not do and I know she had forceps, because of that ", laments the caregiver.

"I caused a cascade of terrible events in spite of myself. But it was I who was the mistreatment. I apologized to the parents. And the worst part of it all is that they have me. Said I had been great. But I hadn't been. Not at all, "she regrets. 

The call of "a woman = a midwife"

This testimony, she writes on Instagram.

Quickly, the messages, the comments flow.

"It goes from the midwife, to the nurse to a policewoman, all kinds of different professions. And then, there is also the reaction of the patients who say thank you. Really, I did not expect it", assures she does. 

She says to herself that we must act and posts a video on her Instagram account with a hashtag #jesuismaltraitante.

To go even further, a petition has been launched.

Alongside four women, Clémentine Sarlat who produces

Clémentine Galey producer of the

podcast

, Agathe Lecaron presenter of

and Alyson Cavaillé, founder of the

brand

Anna Roy appeals to Olivier Véran, the Minister of Health but also to President Emmanuel Macron and asks that each midwife can take care only of a woman who gives birth.

She is also asking for more funding for the hospital.

"One woman per midwife, that's not absurd. In England, where they pay attention to public spending, it is. It is not unrealistic."