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1 - What is your best memory of Mama?
Undeniably, the meeting between my two daughters. Wonder in my eldest Chiara's eyes, pride in ours. It was a moment suspended in time, unspeakable in its intensity. It was brief, rare, even unique, and that's what makes it unique. I remember this feeling of euphoria that took hold of me for a few seconds as if I had left this planet... This feeling of having somehow succeeded all my life.
2 - Being a Mama is...
Vague.
Delicate, it cradles me and always carries me further when it offers me moments of calm, tenderness and visceral love.
Sweet, when in the arms of my daughters, I plunge myself back into those of my mother who was (almost) right about everything. When, I have the impression that I am for them a sun and that they are for me, the center of the world around which everything revolves.
Violent when it makes me doubt, plunges me into its deepest difficulties or when it exhausts my body already battered by the daily life of an active mother who has forgotten herself on the way.
3 - Who are you the Mama?
Chiara, Mila, 5 years old, and Maïa, Ava, 1 year old.
4 - What is your Mama motto?
“ It takes a whole village to raise a child. » African proverb.
Generally, the guilt, the shame of not knowing or the fear of disturbing the other or of doing wrong, push us to keep our doubts, our fears, our apprehensions for us. Over time and thanks to my writing work on Instagram, I learned to free myself already, but also to listen and hear the fights, the experiences, the stories of women who shared the same fears, the same troubles as me whether in their maternity ward or elsewhere. Speech is becoming more and more free, especially on the parental burn-out that I experienced, and the exchange between women is a precious and free help. Every woman I have interacted with has given me something that I will never forget.
5 - What is your best surprise from Mama?
Beyond the family that we have built together, my companion and I, it is the Man that I rediscovered and with whom I fell in love again. I discovered a man who expressed his feelings more, less modest and less reserved. For my part, I discovered qualities that I did not suspect for a single second such as resilience, patience and the desire to realize my childhood dream.... for myself but also for my daughters.
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