To cope with her anxiety, Sophia thought it might help if she told herself that she was not pregnant.
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Non, non! L’accouchement ça a été merveilleux. Mon Dieu, ça a pris 3 heures. (rires) Mais c’est qu’après on aurait dit que durant toute ma grossesse, je m’étais comme un peu coupée de mes émotions par rapport à ce qui s’en venait parce que c’était tellement difficile pour moi d’envisager l’avenir avec autant d’incertitude que je m’étais inconsciemment mise en situation de … Bon, je ne suis pas enceinte, je ne suis pas enceinte, c’est correct. Je continue à faire toutes les mêmes choses que je faisais avant, sans penser vraiment à moi puis à préparer les choses. Faire attention à ne pas trop m’épuiser. Ces choses-là, fait que ça a fait en sorte que quand le bébé est venu au monde, bien là, j’avais comme pas réalisé pendant 9 mois que cet être allait venir au monde. Donc ça a été un choc en plus de tout ce que ça bouleverse. Hum…
[No, no! The delivery was wonderful. My God, it took 3 hours. (laughs) But it’s like, after that, it felt like during my whole pregnancy, I kind of cut myself off from my emotions about what was coming because it was so hard for me to imagine the future with so much uncertainty that I unconsciously put myself in a situation of… Well, I’m not pregnant, I’m not pregnant, it’s fine. I keep doing all the same things I was doing before, without really thinking about myself or preparing things. Being careful not to overexert myself. Those things, so it made it so that when the baby came into the world, well, I hadn’t really realized for 9 months that this being was going to come into the world. So, it was a shock, on top of everything it disrupts. Um…] Translation from the original French.
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