#Monpostpartum video: "I thought only my baby was going to wear diapers... well, no!" Says Illana Weizman

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After childbirth, many women suffer, and little is said about it. Illana Weizman tells Brut why it's important to educate more about post-pregnancy…

"My mom didn't tell me about it, my friends who were already moms didn't tell me about it. Like it was shameful."

Illana Weizman, doctoral student in sociology and feminist activist launched the hashtag #Monpostpartum with three friends. The objective: to break the taboo of the aftermath of childbirth. Bleeding, incontinence… Illana Weizman wants to provide more information on post-pregnancy. "I thought only my baby was going to wear diapers… well, no! I wore diapers myself, voila, this kind of diaper, which is actually diapers for incontinence," says- she before continuing: "It's a convalescence." Illana Weizman insists there is nothing trivial about being 9 months pregnant. "And the period that comes after is far from trivial as well," she adds.

A taboo topic

Beyond the very difficulty of post-pregnancy, Illana Weizman raises another point: no one had told her about those less rosy moments of the arrival of a child. "Society as a whole is trying to keep the secret around it", regrets the doctoral student in particular. Also, Illana Weizman evokes postpartum depression, which affects between 10 and 20% of women.

Among her experiences, Illana Weizman also remembers the phenomenon of postpartum contractions: the uterus contracts to return to its original size. And it can last for weeks or even months. This also results in a swollen belly: finding a flat stomach just after the birth of the child, it only exists in movies. "Women end up, in fact, isolated, helpless, in the face of these pains, in the face of this new physique, in the face of a period which is, once again, a convalescence", Illana laments before concluding: "The mother, when she coming out of childbirth, she should be cared for as much as she should take care of the baby or the parent should take care of the baby."

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