With a baby, no instructions for use are provided when leaving the maternity ward. A new official website, 1000-premiers-jours.fr, offers answers to all questions, from pregnancy to the second year of the child. To go further than advice from friends or mother-in-law.
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Does the baby feel my hands when I touch my pregnant wife’s tummy? Does my baby already have nails in my tummy? Does he feel that I am stressed? Once born, at what age will his teeth come out? How to decode crying and not feel helpless in the face of an infant’s distress? Is he hungry, hot, cold, toothache? What future parent has never asked themselves these questions without ever daring to ask them of a healthcare professional, for fear of appearing stupid.
A new website and app, 1000 premiers jours.fr, offers answers to questions from young parents or future parents. On the initiative, the Public Health France agency. “Being a parent is not innate, justifies Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Children. There is information coming from all over the place. It has always been the case, we always have a boyfriend, a girlfriend, a mother-in-law who told us how to do it. It is still the case, I assure you. But there is also the social networks. “
“Three-quarters of French people tell us that when they ask a question about the relationship with their child during this period of life, it is on social networks that they will look for the answer.”
Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Childrento franceinfo
On 1000-premiers-jours.fr, parents can find scientifically validated information on the health of babies, their diet during the 9 months of pregnancy and up to 2 years. The objective is thus to improve the health and well-being of young children, by helping their parents who often put a lot of pressure on themselves for the birth of a first child.