Hello Hive community!!
How is your 2022 going so far?
Finally, the last picture of the visit to the museum, it took a while, in part because of family visits and because i couldn't decide for the last picture to share, maybe looks simple, but it was very significative:
The context was a hashtag for twitter, #UnaMaternidadEnPandemiaEs (something like "a maternity in pandemia is like..." the picture shows one of twelve walls with messages of how different mothers have lived the lockdown during COVID-19 surge.
The role of the women in home changed drastically, from a traditional way of taking care of the cooking, cleaning and childbearing now to educate, school from zoom or google meet, the mental health of their kids... others balancing these roles with home office, because it's funny to have a important meeting with your boss and the kids playing and disturbing que meeting.
The proportion of the general population that have education or training in school or home office is very low, so, it was a even bigger challenge to complete the task of home, kids, work, stay healthy, try to not get sick... have the talk with your family and even your kids about "if I get sick, you should....."
Even in this times, is nor unusual that a woman have less laboral opportunities and the men is the economic provider, but what did you do if that person get's sick? If survives but have physical impairment? Or if he doesn't survive? With less opportunities and unemployment in the rise?
These were part of the central thougs in these papers...
A maternity in pandemia is like...
... loneliness
... look for new horizons and reinvent one self
... dispair
... become teacher, doctor, COVID expert, administrator, comfort
... teach my baby to become a slave of the facemask and the desinfectant gel
... exit from the puerperium just for start the lockdown
... can't hug your kid even if you are vaccinated, because he is not and you don't want to infect him
... a huge challenge to get your kids to socialize with safety
... distress of running out of dinosaur facemasks
... to know i was pregnant when the lockdown was dictated
As a physician, this walls with messages make me remember what was stay there with them, a mother of three beggin not to get intubated because she wanted to survive and return home... the mother getting better and planning her discharge, but knowing his son that same evening started advanced life support just two rooms far away from her (he didn't make it)... so many new orphans that will be raised by the grandmother, the aunts... or the social services.
I know the COVID-19 has not ended (but let's hope this 2022 will be a good year), how are you working with your kids with the local restrictions? Your home activities have changed drastically?
Please, all of you, wash your hands periodicaly, use facemask, get vaccinated (yes, maybe you will feel sick, but is a lot less that those who get severe forms of disease) and remember, life passes and we hardly notice it.
Take good care!