Getting help from her parents and husband made the nights with the baby much easier for Louise.
Transcript
Intervieweuse: Comment ça s’est passé avec… La relation avec [NAME], puis gérer toutes les nouvelles choses qui sont reliés à la maternité?
Comment ça s’est passé. Je dirais que ça s’est bien passé dû au soutien. Vraiment là, ça s’est super bien passé, même avec mon conjoint. J’ai … Le papa, il est super présent et … Mes parents, ça s’est très bien passé. Je dirais, c’était… On se découvrait. On se découvrait, avec… C’est une nouvelle situation, c’est sûr que c’est tout… T’sais il y a des choses auxquelles il faut qu’on s’adapte, parce que là, les dodos, moi je suis une dormeuse. Fait que là les dodos, on oublie ça! Il se réveille aux 3 heures. Et pour boire. Je dirais que ça a vraiment été… ça a été facile à cause du soutien. Vraiment et j’ai un bébé facile aussi. Donc ça, ça a bien été. Je ne sais pas si ça avait été autrement, peut-être, ça aurait été autre chose. Mais avec les facteurs qu’il y avait autour de moi, que ça soit mon bébé qui… T’sais c’est un bon bébé, il est facile. Mon conjoint, mes parents, ici, ça a bien été, oui.
[Interviewer: How did it go… your relationship with [NAME] and managing all the new things that come with motherhood?
How did it go… I’d say it went well because of the support. Honestly, it went really well, even with my partner. The dad—he’s super present. And my parents—it went really well with them too. I’d say we were discovering each other. We were figuring things out together… It’s a new situation, so of course, there are things you have to adapt to. Like sleep—I’m someone who loves to sleep. Well, forget about that! He wakes up every three hours to feed. But honestly, I’d say it was easy because of the support. Really. And I have an easy baby too, so that helped a lot. I don’t know—if things had been different, maybe it would have been a whole other experience. But with the factors I had around me—my baby, who’s just a good, easy baby, my partner, my parents, here yeah – it all went really well.] Translation from the original French.
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