Intime Douceur: Reinventing Maternity Support

Montreal – Becoming a parent is an adventure filled with emotions, but also challenges. Too often, future parents underestimate the importance of preparing for the arrival of a baby. This realization is what led Festibek TV, through its show Le Monde en parle pas, to dedicate an entire episode to this subject.

For the occasion, the show welcomed a special guest: Priscilla, a nurse specializing in perinatal care, and founder of the service company Intime Douceur. With her international experience and expertise, she advocates for better support for families before and after birth.

From a very young age, Priscilla knew she wanted to work with babies. Trained in France in nursing care, she quickly oriented her career toward perinatal care. Her professional journey then took her across the globe, where she accompanied families in very diverse cultural contexts.

“I had the opportunity to travel and work in royal or traditional environments, to attend privileged births, but above all to discover the universal realities and needs of parents,” she confides.

Settled in Quebec for the past seven years, Priscilla decided to found Intime Douceur there, a company designed to fill a gap: postnatal support.

Specialized in perinatal care, Priscilla has completed several trainings: birth accompaniment, breastfeeding, parent-baby massage, physiological babywearing, and child development assessment.

The heart of her approach lies in pedagogy and prevention. Unlike the strictly curative medical follow-up of pediatricians, she offers comprehensive support that takes into account the physical, emotional, and psychological dimensions of parents and the baby.

“Each parent is the expert of their child. But sometimes, tools and knowledge are missing. My role is to complement this natural expertise, restore confidence, and provide concrete solutions,” she explains.

Priscilla highlights a recurring observation seen internationally: future parents often benefit from attentive follow-up during pregnancy but find themselves left on their own once they leave the maternity ward.

Yet it is precisely in the first weeks that needs are the most urgent: hormonal drops, intense fatigue, loneliness, difficulties linked to breastfeeding or family adjustment. “We cannot leave women alone in this vulnerability, because it is the entire family unit that suffers,” she warns.

For her, services like those of Intime Douceur help break isolation, put words to emotions, and prevent more serious complications such as postpartum depression.

One of the main challenges remains awareness. Many families do not anticipate the reality of postpartum, and some communities still consider this subject taboo.

Priscilla explains: “Some well-informed mothers know how to recognize the signs of baby blues or postpartum depression. But others, who have not had any preparation, experience it in shame or silence, until the situation becomes critical.”

She therefore advocates for better collaboration between government organizations, community structures, and private initiatives, in order to offer a complete safety net for new families.

In conclusion of the show, Priscilla made a strong statement: “I dream of a Quebec where parents, communities, and institutions work hand in hand to support families. Free and accessible prenatal classes are already a valuable first step. But we must go further: offer continuous support, value the emotional dimension, and provide parents with practical resources to better live this transition.”

Her company, Intime Douceur, available throughout Greater Montreal as well as online, aims to be an essential ally for families seeking peace of mind.