Honestly, I am not sure if Carolina Bescansa was a strategy or simply did not want to part with her baby, which I would understand perfectly because the first time I had to leave the house without my daughter I was stuck to the mobile asking every 5 minutes if she was well . If it was the first, then he achieved what in theory he should look for: to talk about family reconciliation.
Neither everything is positive, nor everything negative
On that gesture personally I see positive things and others not so much. Within the good, that the subject has been put on the table, that a public figure has been seen breastfeeding (to see if it finally normalizes and ceases to be invisible to the rest of society), that we leave see policies that resume their jobs 10 days after giving birth, giving the message (in my opinion, wrong), that it can be done and nothing happens ... that for some women the priorities do not change when you bring a new Life to the world
However, I also see shadows in what happened yesterday: exposing a baby like that to the media doesn't seem healthy, nor subject him to sitting for hours, without playing or resting. Also some injustice with the rest of mothers who do not have the freedom to decide whether or not we want to take our babies to work, though ... thinking cold ... would you do it?
Is it possible to work with your baby by your side?
As it is impossible to generalize (a deputy to a bus driver or a receptionist is not the same), I will talk about my case. Practically all my professional life I have developed it in the financial area (more specifically in the stock market). However, now I am autonomous and work from home, although many times I have to be away from home.
If, at the time I was employed, I had had my baby, they would not have allowed me to take her to the office, I know that. However, in the hypothetical case, I honestly wouldn't have taken her... I think that is not the environment for a baby and knowing me, I could not have concentrated on a job where you have to have a cool head and 100% mind.
Putting myself in situation and thinking about that ideal world that mothers sometimes dream ofYes, I would have loved to have the possibility of having a nursery in the same building to be able to continue with my chest on demand, or to be able to go see him at the time I felt like it without anyone making me faces or being accused of being irresponsible for doing so .
For me, that is the true reconciliation: have the freedom to choose who, where and how your baby is taken care of, feel that your environment makes things easier for you to be able to carry out the most beautiful and hard function of the world that is motherhood, without having to give up, if you don't want to , to develop a professional career.
And a mother who had these facilities, would she perform properly at work?
I remember Monica Oriol, the former president of the Businessmen's Circle, who said she preferred not to hire women of childbearing age because 'there the problems begin'. The truth is that what I see around me (almost all my friends work and have children), are women who juggle to reach everything ... who are you mothers know that sometimes it seems that we develop 'super powers' to do three and four things at once and hey, your babies and their careers are going very well (well, their dark circles grow proportionally, as happens to me). I am sure that a valued and supported worker rewards that treatment effectively ... there are also many studies that confirm it.
I think the part that many of the businessmen and politicians in this country have not yet understood is that the family is one of the most important bases of a society. If we have the necessary tools to raise, educate and care for them as they need, we will have fewer problems in the future. It is not a matter of all of us being with our babies all day in our work if we do not want ... is to have a nursery nearby that does not cost us an eye, is to have policies that encourage teleworking, adequate maternity and paternity leave or subsidies for mothers who decide to stay at home taking care of their children.
In short, there is a lot to work on (Mrs. Bescansa, after the lights are turned off, that is the next step)... hopefully this does not remain in a simple viral anecdote and that in the future we can see a true evolution in this aspect.
Now it's your turn ... Thinking cold: Would you take your babies to your work if you could?
