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    While gifts and parties before birth are seen as bad luck in France, pregnant women can reduce work hours by 15% and take 16 weeks of paid maternity leave. After giving birth, mothers and babies are required to stay in the hospital for 3-4 days where they receive training and must bring specific items. A common baby gift in France for years has been a squeaky giraffe toy named Sophie, though the origin is unknown. Leaving the hospital provides parents a complicated medical records packet for their child called a Carnet de Sante that is needed for the next 18 years.

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    While gifts and parties before birth are seen as bad luck in France, pregnant women can reduce work hours by 15% and take 16 weeks of paid maternity leave. After giving birth, mothers and babies are required to stay in the hospital for 3-4 days where they receive training and must bring specific items. A common baby gift in France for years has been a squeaky giraffe toy named Sophie, though the origin is unknown. Leaving the hospital provides parents a complicated medical records packet for their child called a Carnet de Sante that is needed for the next 18 years.

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    While gifts and parties before birth are seen as bad luck in France, pregnant women can reduce work hours by 15% and take 16 weeks of paid maternity leave. After giving birth, mothers and babies are required to stay in the hospital for 3-4 days where they receive training and must bring specific items. A common baby gift in France for years has been a squeaky giraffe toy named Sophie, though the origin is unknown. Leaving the hospital provides parents a complicated medical records packet for their child called a Carnet de Sante that is needed for the next 18 years.

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    No, Gifts and parties before Birth

    Announcements and celebrations are more


    intimate interactions am,ong close friends and
    family. There is a superstition about causing h,arm
    by g1ivin,g gifts during pregnancy.

    Pregn,ant women have the option to reduoe their work


    hours up to 15% and 16weer<s of maternity l'eave.

    A Long Hospital Stay


    France requires new mothers and babies to stay for
    3-4 days, bring particular items, and take training
    sessions on caring for their child.
    T'raditional Gifts
    For years, a squeaky giraffe named Sophie has been
    given to al,most ,every baby in France,. It is unknown
    how this tradition began.

    Lots of Bureaucracy
    When l'eaving the hospital, you are given a packet for
    all your child's m1edical records for the Inext 18 years.
    This packet is called the Carnet d e Sante, and it is very
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    compUcat,ed if you lose it.

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