Time passes, the body is stabilizing, the nausea has decreased significantly and is more manageable, fatigue is giving way to energy and vitality, and it is the right time to get back to work!
I love my job! I approached the world of motherhood and motherhood support after having my first baby… It was a difficult pregnancy with an emergency cesarean at the end and a complicated post-birth. I felt alone and abandoned, I was young, inexperienced and poorly informed. Mine was a complicated and risky pregnancy, every time I went to the hospital I was afraid of what I might find out. The baby was small, had little amniotic fluid and had heart defects. In the last month, growth slowed down a lot, the baby was below 5% and so on November 18 they decided to hospitalize me and try to induce me. They tried 3 times, but the child reacted badly, her little heart would not have endured labor. On November 29, the baby was born by caesarean section. We had a lot of problems with breastfeeding (I breastfeed 5 days), the pain of the caesarean was really strong, one month after birth the baby was hospitalized for bronchiolitis, in the meantime I had a hemorrhage and everything was immersed in Nicole’s heart problems (which resolved when she was 2, thankfully!). They weren’t easy months and in that context I started thinking about how to support and help other mothers. First I became prenatal and neonatal aquamotricist because I have always believed so much in the power of water! Then I started the path to become a Maternal Personal Trainer. When I moved to London I finally discovered the figure of the Doula: a person who follows you, supports you, accompanies you and helps you make informed choices during pregnancy; a person who is with you during labor, birth and the first few hours of the baby’s life; a person who cares and looks after you in a practical way, who supports you on an emotional level and assists you during the first weeks of the baby. I started to inform me and the more I did it the more I fell in love with this profession. I finally signed up for the course and became a doula! As I said, I love my job and I want to keep doing it!
Undoubtedly I cannot take the responsibility of following pregnancies and births because, I still have to deal with the fact that now there are two of us working, but I can be there for a postnatal. And so I start working again!
The work is going great, the energies are back and working makes me happy! Sometimes it’s intense, engaging and exciting, even more than usual, but that’s normal, it’s the hormones! 🙂
When I finish work I run home, I’m very hungry! But first I stop at the supermarket, the cravings have arrived and I go to satisfy them, but this is another chapter…
See you at the next chapter!
Ale, mum of 2!