Hello my dear friends Hivers and Motherhood this is my second content within this community that reflects the love of mom and the experiences of each one in this wonderful responsibility and task in life. Being on the eve of Mother's Day and based on the challenge for this date in the proposal of this space for our edification, I want to first open this content by telling you that "You are virtuous".
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Toda madre es una mujer de valor, por ello cada una que con esmero, dedicación y amor damos lo mejor a nuestros hijos y hogar estamos llenas de virtudes, mujeres de corazón dispuesto en hacer el bien y no el mal, influyente en su entorno, una mujer de gran bendición y estima.
Every mother is a woman of courage, so each one who with care, dedication and love give the best to our children and home are full of virtues, women of heart willing to do good and not evil, influential in their environment, a woman of great blessing and esteem.
I am glad to be able at this time to share these lines of how my story has been on my way to motherhood, which has been loaded with so many teachings, learnings and great joys, although there come times when you may want or have to cry for commitment, as well as some circumstances, but looking to the side where you see your children gives you courage, courage and enough strength to continue.
Writing this content takes me to the moment of my first pregnancy, the excitement of being a mom for the first time, buying the little things and organizing the baby shower for the welcome of the baby, as well as that there were difficult moments that I went through since from the moment I found out about my pregnancy, I was going through a detachment which led me to be 4 months with a treatment taking care of the life of my firstborn in my womb. Then his birth was brought forward by complications with preclancia that present although throughout my pregnancy I take care of myself, I complied with the Doctor's diet even and with all this I ran risks, advancing the cesarean section and on the fifth day of this have between 5 to 7 seizures in a row having to enter an ICU (Intensive Care Unit). But for the glory and honor of the Lord here we are, my 8-year-old girl and me.
I remember well that at birth my baby was so tiny of just 34 weeks, a seventeenth girl, whose weight was 1.50 kilos and measured 40 cm. Then it was all a care and process since for 4 months she had to be at home without receiving visitors, without strong odors, in an environment that was full of warmth so that it finished maturing, since due to its low weight and size they require it. On the other hand, the fact of being both 17 days in a hospital led to her adapting to drinking bottle milk since the fact that I was so delicate, weak and in the intensive care unit she did not have that contact with my breast for breastfeeding and when she was already in my arms to receive her she did not want to breastfeed; which led us to a greater investment in milks and find the formula that liked him because it was premature. They were days of so much dedication, dedication, very strong and of struggle but of great happiness because we can both testify of the miracles of God, who preserved and guarded our lives.
And then time passed and it turned out that I was pregnant again (when the doctors had said not to risk having another child because of my strong case of preclance), without looking for it my belly was full of life again, I was so afraid, so many thoughts and emotions ran through my mind that I only chose to trust God and that it was his will and let myself be carried away by that full will that is good pleasant and perfect delivering my burdens, those fears and the one that gave me tranquility during pregnancy and today allows me to hug and take care of my second offspring, who is already 4 years old. Everything was going very well in this second pregnancy, but... A day before the scheduled date of the cesarean section we had to go to the hospital because I was swelling and my legs became somewhat pink, which activated the alarm at home to go to the Castillo Plaza Hospital in Maracaibo where they kept track of my pregnancy and once that day they acted to attend me since again overnight the severe preclancy became active. I entered the ward for the cesarean section surgery and I was praying a lot to God fully trusting in Him and here we are telling the story although there was a lot of tension in everyone especially in my parents, for my life and that of my baby, but everything was very good, since everything was done on time and we did not let time pass but at once we went to be attended by the doctors.
Y pues, en esta oportunidad sí supe lo que es la lactancia materna jeje / And then, this time I did know what breastfeeding is hehe
One of many things that I can mention since there are many, is that my two daughters have allowed me to grow and mature more as a person, work to get the best out of me every day and be a great example for them. This path has not been easy, especially because for 5 years I have had to be alone with my girls filling the spaces of their heart with the Presence of God and on my part giving smiles, since the father of both lives in another country, we are not together, about to divorce and his physical presence for the kilometers away is not; what has been something strong for my eldest daughter who was the one who lived with him until she was three years old and because in the case of the youngest I was two months pregnant when he emigrated. This gave a 360 degree turn to our lives and stories which allowed me to see many things in another way, dry my tears and especially those of my girl who by not being physically the father figure was detached from that bond emotionally, changed her behavior from being a laughing girl to being anxious, busy, grumpy on many occasions, disowning her father, at the time of making a drawing she drew everyone except him; although he was rebellious deep down, it hurt him a lot and on many occasions he has told me: ¡I want you to give me a dad I can hug! as well as: ¡I want you to marry someone who loves you very much mommy, you deserve it! Something that I work hand in hand with God, psychological help and a lot of love, communication both with me and with her dad who is many miles away but making an appearance by video calls, because regardless of what happened between us the important thing is the well-being of our little ones and help her heal. All this allowed me to draw strength from where long ago I did not have to grow as a person, woman and mother; as well as understanding those who have had to go through or go through something similar.
Perhaps for many women who have not yet had children and think a lot about having one is all that implies... responsibility, that delivery, late night, working in a home or in some work field so that they are well, that the luxuries and outputs are not only for you as in your single life or without children, but there are "sacrifices" among them I can also mention going to bed late, getting up at dawn to give a bottle or breast, watching that they are well if they are sick; Take the bite out of your mouth to give them to it if you are tight financially. Every mother is a sower in a land, every mother fertilizes a land of another life "the children" and when you work the land to be good it generates very good harvest and fruits, of blessing for your life before the surrender and dedication of your life to them.
Sometimes as moms we are very strict about being careful and wanting the best for our children, but we must be careful not to be an instrument of pressure on their lives. Obviously, we were not born learned in this of motherhood and parenting, we are learning day by day, as well as as as our children grow up the functions or roles of "student-teacher" are given; I mean We as parents are exposed to teaching to learn from our responsibility to them and the role of teachers because we teach them with love, values, norms, rules and habits in our home, so I can say as a mother that it is something reciprocal where even we in our adulthood learn from our great treasures, "our children".
To end this content today, I want to share that motherhood corresponds to a transit, a walk and journey of "self-knowledge", which in turn leads us to reconnect with our inner boy or girl that when growing up we often leave in oblivion; Our children give us that push without wanting that little one inside us towards what we lacked one day in that stage of ours and begin to work beautifully in that our children are a better version of us, in applying other ways of teaching perhaps to the one we receive or modify / change some things. I am still learning in each season and stage of growth of my daughters, giving the best, filling them with a lot of love, as well as principles and values that have been lost in this time; But our task as mothers is to sow them, to inject them into them so that they may be good women and men of tomorrow. A mother full of wisdom always sows And ¿what are we going to sow? Time, words of affection and love and faith.
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The photographs are my own, taken with my Huawei Smart 2019 POT-LX1 cell phone / Las fotografías son de mi autoría tomadas con mi celular Huawei Smart 2019 POT-LX1.
Image editing program: postermywall and Paint / Programa de edición de imágenes: postermywall y Paint.