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"Baby box" distributed to young parents: "A bad answer to real issues"

2021-10-19T06:11:52.642Z


FIGAROVOX / TRIBUNE - The Ministry of Health plans to distribute a kit, from February 2022, to all young parents. Containing sleeping bag, soap and moisturizer, this "baby box" is disconnected from the real concerns of mothers during the postnatal period, believes Blanche Streb.


Blanche Streb is a doctor of pharmacy.

After having worked for twelve years in research and development in the pharmaceutical industry, she is today director of training and research for Alliance VITA.

She has published

Customized Babies, the World of the Best

(Artège, 2018).

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Good news ! The government is so interested in young mothers and their newborns that it has made a commitment to offer young women giving birth a "baby box", or rather a small "shoulder bag" nicely furnished.

What will we find there? A sleeping bag, to learn how to safely put your baby to bed. A natural soap, to finally decide to consume smart. A small album book, so as not to forget the artistic and cultural awakening of the infant. Pink or blue? No worries, Adrien Taquet is committed to the “non-gendered toys charter”… Phew. We breathe! The icing on the cake, mom will also find a moisturizer there, "

to allow her to say to herself that she must take care of herself

", specifies the Ministry of Solidarity and Health, which is pleased to be working on this operation for nine months.

About 30% of mothers deserve special attention because of a greater or lesser weakness linked to pregnancy or childbirth, which is a major public health issue.

Blanche Streb

One can imagine the budget allocated to communication agencies, to the production of prototypes, to the monitoring of the public market ... This operation, which will start with priority areas before gradually extending to 750,000 annual births, will cost the trifle of several dozen dollars. million euros per year.

The resources mobilized are considerable, but do they meet the real needs?

What do we read in this famous report of the first thousand days, commissioned by this same ministry last year, and which would allegedly be the source of inspiration for this filled basket? That more than 100,000 women are in great distress in the year following the birth of their child, and only half of them can find whom to turn to. That around 30% of mothers deserve special attention because of more or less weakening linked to pregnancy or childbirth, which is a major public health issue. That violence against women increases during the perinatal period, that it often begins during the first pregnancy, and that in 40% of cases it increases during this one.

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So yes, this box, provided with advice sheets, has been designed so that "

each object conveys and symbolizes a message intended to help parents, it will serve as a support for dialogue with families in the maternity ward.

», Indicates the cabinet of the Secretary of State. But why not first rely on professionals who are in contact with families and babies, whose experience and knowledge are already sufficient support for dialogue? Our dear Midwives, whose vocation vocation is in great suffering, must also feel put in a box. Often overwhelmed, they do not have time to take care of women as they would like, and as they should. Improve their working conditions, their remuneration, and their continuing education, taking into account the lessons of the report on the first 1000 days. Yes ! Transform that into a communication blow, into infantilizing and demagogic marketing. No !

What does a young mother, who is going through physical and emotional upheaval, who discovers the load and the mission incumbent on her, need? Certainly no additional pressures, whether one presents her motherhood as a performance or to hear intimate that she must "

go out, not to forget herself as a parent, to go to play sports or activities outside.

". Nor to feel guilty when she is forced to buy back her first price soap. She needs to be self-confident, to know that she will meet this challenge knowing that she will find help when needed.

But is it so surprising that a government which constantly discredits family policy, considers the father as an option, the child as a project and the birth rate as a secondary subject ends up giving birth? of a mouse?

Blanche Streb

She also needs to hear that it is okay to find the first few months difficult.

That yes, it takes time to recover from a childbirth, which you cannot find by snapping your fingers on her body before, and that caring for an infant is exhausting.

Giving life is made of flesh and blood, tears and joy.

No need to hide it from him.

She lives it, and realizes that to give life is also to give a lot of your life.

But is it so surprising that a government which constantly discredits family policy, considers the father as an option, the child as a project and the birth rate as a secondary subject ends up giving birth? of a mouse?

The choice of such an expense, a very poor response to real issues, can only cause consternation and disappointment.

In this electoral dawn, the government will distribute its disconnected box.

A missed opportunity.

Source: lefigaro

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