Women's perinatal mental health problems can create a cascade of short- and long-term negative influences for the mother, child, and the family as a whole. To prevent these impacts, preventive online and telephone interventions exist, but need to be tested and improved to develop this type of support to women in Quebec. The Parents \& Babies program, which is a distance learning course, followed during pregnancy and accompanied by telephone follow-up, aims to improve the mental health of future parents.The investigators seek to evaluate the effect of the intervention of the Parents \& Babies program offered with telephone support compared to the course offered without telephone follow-up.
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Change from baseline at 3 month postpartum depressive symptoms: The Edinburgh Perinatal/Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS)
Timeframe: baseline (between gestational weeks 12-25) , 3 months postpartum