For a pregnancy healthy BREAK THE SILENCE
08 November 2022
For a pregnancy healthy BREAK THE SILENCE
Are you worried about your safety and your baby's safety?
- Domestic violence is unacceptable.
- You are not alone:
There are several resources available to help:
- S.O.S. violence conjugale
Phone: 1 800 363-9010
- Shelters for women victims of domestic violence
- Women's centers
- Integrated health and social services centers
Social Services (CISSS) and University Integrated Health and Social Services Centres (CIUSSS)
- In case of emergency, call 911
Approximately one in ten pregnant women (1/10) say they have experienced one or more acts of violence in the past two years.
The act most often mentioned (63.7%) by women is to have been pushed, grabbed or shoved in a grabbed or pushed in a way that could have hurt them.
Approximately 18% of women abused during pregnancy during pregnancy have a miscarriage or suffer internal trauma as a result of violence.
Domestic violence can have the following effects on your pregnancy and your baby:
premature or low birth weight baby
miscarriage;
eating and sleeping problems in children;
growth retardation.
Source; Santé et services sociaus du Québec
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