High-level acrobat and writer, mother of three children and mother-in-law of two teenage girls, Geneviève Drolet knows what it’s all about when it comes to motherhood and parenthood. She shares her observations, her comments, her reflections on her life as a mother and the balance between work and family. She measures the impact of the arrival of children in a life in a hard-hitting essay, Domestic Acrobatics.
Geneviève Drolet quickly saw the impact of the arrival of children on the body, on a career, on the couple. Her text, feminist, intimate, invites everyone to question their role in this great adventure of giving life.
She also describes what it means to have a BABI, a baby with intense needs. She was in her “motherhood digest” when she started writing the book. “My twins were quite young (5-7 months) and I saw that I was no longer able to put words to what I was going through, it was so intense. I used the writing as a platform to express myself because it wasn’t necessarily coming out, I was too tired to talk about it in an intelligible way. »
She somehow emptied herself of her overflow. “It quickly appeared in the form of notebooks, with fairly specific themes, except for the part ‘The construction site’, which I had written when I was pregnant with my first child. It was really more of a little humorous capsule, to remember that moment. »
She then addressed other themes in relation to parenthood and perinatality. “I moved more and more in this environment and I realized that even if among women we talk a lot about these things, as initiates, they are sometimes taboo and do not have much place in society in general. »
Listening
She therefore strongly felt the need to write this book for women, for parents, for fathers, “so that they regain possession of this vulnerable moment in their lives”.
Geneviève Drolet speaks knowingly: she testifies to nauseating pregnancies and can talk about deliveries that do not always go as we had imagined or dreamed. “We have expectations, but what is important in all of this is that the woman is listened to, that the family is listened to in its needs. There are a lot of things that can happen in a birth. Emergencies are not always foreseen. »
“There are a lot of data that come to alter this moment. But when the woman feels listened to in her needs, it always goes better. She will always feel more like she had a good birth if there was listening and if there was kindness, humanity, compared to an experience where she felt rushed. , even abused. »
Writing did him good. “It’s a healing process from all kinds of situations. To put words on a feeling is the beginning of a path, it is never the destination—. This is the start of the process. »
