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“We would all like to be able to say to ourselves that it is beautiful, a body that has just given birth because we have just given birth, but in reality, it is more complicated than that.” Brut met several women after giving birth to talk about postpartum.
“We grew up with films where the woman comes out of the maternity ward with the baby in her arms and a flat stomach, but that’s Hollywood. You have to show real life, there’s no shame in that.”
“If in the media, in the movies, we valued this state a little more, it would be easier for us”. For Brut, many women look back on their postpartum period, which extends from the end of childbirth to the return of menstruation.
“I had a very, very big belly with a big baby, very pulled forward. Once the baby is out, the belly spreads out a bit… It’s a bit weird. It was really a body that was totally foreign to me”says Sabrina, content creator.
“There is no postpartum that looks like another postpartum. Physically, you understand that it has nothing to do with whether you gave birth by caesarean section with hemorrhage or if you gave birth in 3 hours, in the bathtub and without an epidural”explains Anna Roy, midwife.
“Me, I can say it, I like postpartum. I like this suspended time with her baby, I like the fact that I have the right to do nothing, that I am allowed to rest, to repair myself”reveals Clémentine Sarlat, founder of the “La Matrescence” podcast