Granai della Memoria

Evelina is a young woman who waited a long time before becoming a mother. Today she describes herself as a 'commuter mother', she often commutes for work, being an environmental technician who deals with land reclamation, and faces all the difficulties associated with her job of responsibility and travel.

Eight years have passed since the beginning of the quest to become a mother, and when the pregnancy arrived she decided to be accompanied by a therapist, who from the fifth month onwards helped her to live the waiting time to the full, doing all the 'pregnancy activities' that give well-being to mother and child, to ensure that she arrived in the best possible way.

The induced birth went well, lasted less than expected and was helped by prompt and competent midwives and an equally good husband: despite the hustle and bustle of the shift change in the delivery room, the experience was painful but beautiful in her memory.

The first approach to breastfeeding was somewhat in line with the indications of the midwives who accompanied her, They had suggested that the first contact would be immediately after giving birth, a sniffing of the nipple, a skin-to-skin that represents a first approach, the touching of the two bodies. After a long sleep, the baby began to latch on in an increasingly smooth and harmonious manner.

Evelina lived the first stage of her long-awaited motherhood with serenity, because she was able to tackle one problem at a time, living the times with maturity of thought and body, and feeling a strong awareness that in parenting, whatever it may be, natural or by adoption, shared or lonely, traditional or modern, the freedom and health of the mother who cares for it are the most important ingredients for the health of her children.