Reconciling work and motherhood is difficult for everyone, regardless of your profession and the way you feed your baby. However, breastfeeding has the peculiarity that no one can do it for you, so it is something that can sometimes take us to the limit and that requires a great effort to continue until both of you decide to quit. Sara Sálamo has reminded us with a post on her Instagram of those moments of sleepless nights in which in the end, a smile from your baby heals everything.
World Breastfeeding Week begins.
Today, finally, I am writing to you from home, but I have been working for six weeks in another city. Very long and very intense days, in a project that has meant giving me a thousand percent. But working on this movie has not been the most complex part …
This little guy here, accompanied me day and night. Dressing rooms, hotels and caravans, where he waited anxiously for his tit. Our moments. Those moments of reconnecting with something so powerful and that enveloped us in the bubble of “everything is fine.” Here, well, we are safe.
But it is not, nor has it been, all the color of roses … The nights have been VERY HARD. Going to work having slept two, three or four hours because only I can feed you, has put me physically and psychologically to the test every day of this month and a half.
But… we did it! Because I didn’t want to choose between being just an actress or a mother. And you are delighted with your tit … And I die when, while you eat, you give me one of those smiles so yours. So amazing.
I wanted again to thank the producers, director and the entire team for making it so easy for me to reconcile. 💙
Those of us who have breastfed know how hard it can be, so it’s hard for me to imagine what it must mean to literally live on a film set, when you don’t have a set schedule and you are away from your family. The comments on her post reveal how much mothers relate to her message and how difficult it is to reconcile when you have a breastfeeding baby.
His final sentence is also striking because it reminds us that breastfeeding needs everyone’s support, as stated in the slogan of the World Lactation Week 2021 campaign: “Protecting Breastfeeding: A Shared Responsibility”.
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