TESTIMONIALS – There are many reasons for concern for these women who, like the rest of France, are under confinement to fight the coronavirus.
“A delivery room without flowers, without the grandmother, it’s sad”, recognizes Frédéric Leyret, director of the Sainte-Anne clinic in Strasbourg. But hugs, comings and goings, and bouquets are virus nests. And in the midst of a coronavirus epidemic, the rule is now common to all maternity wards: no visits for young babies.
On social networks, the rumor runs: some establishments would prohibit fathers from crossing their threshold, others would only tolerate it for childbirth. “Birth consultations and follow-ups, dad forbidden. He finds his little family only 3 or 4 days after… ”, testifies a midwife on Facebook. Result: “The demands for patients to give birth at home begin”, writes Camille D., also a midwife.
In Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine), the hospital center decided on March 25 that the spouses could no longer visit young mothers and their babies. A caregiver has passed
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