It all started with a censorship, that of an advertisement for postpartum diapers which was to be broadcast on February 12 during the Oscars, refused on the grounds that it was "too raw". A staggering silence that prompted feminist activist Illana Weizman to launch the hashtag #monpospartum on her Instagram account. .
Thus she published two photos of her in panties, a few days after giving birth and explained in the caption:“Here I am, wearing an adult diaper, mopping up the blood that flows for days and weeks, the belly still swollen, the uterus still extended, the contractions which gently put it back in place, the bruised legs, the points which pull, the impossibility of sitting down without pain, the urine which burns, the impression of being put under a steamroller ”.
And to add under her last photo:"The vagueness orchestrated around the postpartum, the voluntary erasure of cultural representations of this pivotal period of life for women participates in the deterioration of the mental health of these .
From then on, there followed a series of testimonies from women wishing to shed light on obstetric violence during childbirth, depression passed over in silence after childbirth, loneliness, daily pain...
Faced with the scale of the phenomenon, Adrien Taquet, the Secretary of State for Child Protection, reacted on Twitter, to welcome an initiative aimed at “breaking these taboos ". And to recall the government's commitment:"Listen, support and better support » the parents.
Note that you will be able to find in the next issue of Biba, a long dossier devoted to this subject.
