Parents

When my children were little, one of the things that caused me the most tenderness was to see the admiring face with which they looked at me when I did something they didn't know how to do, or when I answered their innumerable doubts.

Eating a healthy diet during pregnancy, in addition to being the best for mom and baby, also helps prevent certain short- and long-term complications, such as gestational diabetes or childhood obesity.

Raising and educating children requires a significant daily effort that, combined with work stress and the high level of demand that parents sometimes impose on ourselves, ends up leading to what is called 'parental burnout'.

A few days ago I was reading a phrase on the internet that made me reflect. She said something like "nothing prepares you to be a mother, but being a mother prepares you for everything."

In 2017, in Spain, the father's surname ceased to prevail over that of the mother after the reform of the Civil Registry. From that moment, the parents must agree on the order of the surnames when registering a newborn child, although if this does not happen, and after a period of three days, it will be the person in charge of the Civil Registry who Establish said order in the best interest of the minor, but not by setting that of the father by default.

Fortunately, times have changed and we have proven that the father's role in parenting is very important for both mother and baby from minute one. Fortunately for everyone, behind are the times when he was a mere spectator (and sometimes not even that), in the intense and difficult first weeks of his son.

Fortunately, behind are those times when the father awaited the birth of his heir from the other side of the door while smoking one cigar after another and walking like a caged lion. Before childbirth was a women's thing and men had no place in this ritual.

After the birth of the first child, great changes take place in the couple's relationship. They go from being two to three, from being a couple to a family. Everything now revolves around the baby, routines change to meet their needs, roles change ... Both are released as parents and naturally this affects the relationship that is going through a transformation process.