Births at the lowest in France: “The Covid got the better of my desire to have a second child”

In his living room, between plants and children’s toys, still pile up a few boxes, leftovers from his recent installation. Sophie has just moved in with her partner and her 5-year-old son in a beautiful apartment on the ground floor in the center of Aubervilliers (Seine-Saint-Denis). The building came out of the ground during the health crisis. As the construction site was running late, the couple counted the days. “This suspended time exhausted me,” says the young forty-year-old. The fact of having a desire for a child during this period, when you live all the time with your family, and when it is imposed on you, it was strange. The period was suffocating, ”she says.