Among the clichés surrounding young mothers, there is one that is persistent, the one according to which you must fall in love with your child, in the first moments of life. However, many women have felt guilty for not having this “magic connection” at first sight.
Agathe Lecaron’s podcast Is it serious? aims to deconstruct these preconceived ideas that put pressure on young mothers and young fathers. And to do this, she does not hesitate to give of herself.
“I’ve heard my mother say that all my life: ‘Yes, I gave birth for 24 hours, but then when they placed you on my stomach, everything disappeared, it was the most beautiful moment of my life. life, I loved you from the first second,” she begins.
Between Donald Trump…
Unfortunately, everything didn’t exactly go that way for the mother of Gaspard and Felix, born in 2014 and 2016 respectively.
“I admit, when I had Gaspard on my stomach I said to myself: “I wasn’t expecting this child at all”, I felt that it wasn’t going to last, but I “I didn’t make the connection right away,” she admits.
Anna Roy, her midwife accomplice The Kindergarten Housewas then reassuring: “love at first sight like in the films is quite rare”. According to her, there is cause for concern “after only a few weeks”, and progress can be “very slight”, day by day.
She then warned against “the imaginary baby, the ideal pregnancy”. “If you’re pregnant, listen to me: try to consider other possible scenarios,” she adds.
At these words, Agathe Lecaron bounced back, laughing at her own experience. “Tell yourself that he’s going to be very ugly… Me, Gaspard, he came out with the spoons, the guy looked like Donald Trump. Already, I was expecting a little blond, he came out brown with dark skin. There I say to myself, shit, he looks like his father and what’s more, like a deformed father,” explains the presenter on the microphone.
…and Émile Louis
And even if she understands that she will end up loving him, the host admits to having “talked to him like when you meet someone at a dinner”.
“I said to him: “Hi, I’m Agathe, I’m your mother”… I had heard that you had to do that, introduce yourself, so I did it stupidly and he was cross-eyed, he told me looked with impossible eyes. My cousin told me “The first look of your baby, you will keep it in your head all your life because he has not yet been perverted by society…” Well, the guy looked at me like Émile Louis,” said Agathe Lecaron.
This should reassure many mothers. We must not forget “that we are getting to know someone we don’t know”.
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