Famous women, whether they like it or not, usually serve as a model, inspiration or as a normalizing element of what they do. You will all have heard that "it is true, they say it on TV" and, of course, public figures have the power to create a tendency both for their way of dressing and for their way of life.
This is one of the reasons that in Babies and more let's talk about celebrities, for good and for bad, when they give birth by caesarean section on a whim or talk about conciliation without reconciling anything, when they promote breastfeeding or when, as Elsa Pataky in a great interview in the ABC newspaper, they explain that at birth his children made the skin with skin, breastfeeds them and sleeps with the three.
Elsa Pataky has three children, a two-year-old girl and two twins of a month and a half. He lives in the US and these days he has come to Spain, with his children, to promote a book he has written with Fernando Sartorius. Her children drink breast milk, so they go where she goes, and although she tried to set schedules to control the feeding of two babies at the same time, it is clear that the babies "do not understand schedules", and always gives them asking.
A conscious motherhood
It all started three years ago, when pregnant with her first daughter, Indian Rose, and living in London, where the current of attachment breeding is much more widespread than in the US, where they now live, she began reading books and becoming interested in everything related to pregnancy, childbirth and babies and your emotional and physical needs.
As London was a very advanced city in that regard, he had no problem in making the so-called "skin with skin" at the birth of his daughter, as well as in achieving satisfactory breastfeeding. Following everything he learned and what he felt, he decided that being with his daughter close to his body was so wonderful that he would do it at all hours.
In fact, he sees so much benefit in this that he relates contact with children with character: "Of the three children I have, the calmest are the ones with the most skin to skin they had with me as soon as they were born, I am convinced that those first minutes are fundamental for the rest of your life", and one of the twins was taken at birth because he had more amniotic fluid in the airways and had to help him so he could breathe well.
Such was his conviction that he managed, not without fighting him, that after the caesarean section of his twins, he would be left with them to his chest. There, in the US, where skin-to-skin contact after caesarean section is not usually done, as it is not done in Spain, although we do not give up in our efforts to continue explaining why it is possible and why it should be done.
Colecho with the three children
The family that sleeps together will never be defeated (or what was the phrase like?). Elsa and her family they all sleep together. As he explains, when the twins were born, the eldest, who is not so much, said he wanted to continue sleeping with dad and mom, and with his new brothers. With all the naturalness of the world he explains that "stay with us and the twins sleep in a bed next to us".
It also carries its babies, logical considering that it gives so much importance to skin-to-skin contact and to make them feel safe and protected.
The day this is not news ...
I confess that while writing the letters you just read I was thinking things like: "but this is not news", "but this is normal", "but we already do this most before she did", "but ... ". Come on, a tremendous feeling of not explaining anything new. To be giving importance to normal. However, I immediately thought about the different entries I have written about conciliation and celebrities and the dozens of comments I have made about these days on the blog and on social networks about it, and I have realized that yes, That this is news.
It is news that a famous woman puts her children ahead of everything and is clear that they have basic needs that must be covered, and I do not talk about sleeping, eating and pooping, but also, and above all, about receive the affection, affection and contact of your parents.
It's news, but it shouldn't be, because everything Elsa Pataky says is what any woman and any man, famous or not, should explain when talking about babies: they are small, they need us more than anything, they are here to love us and for us to love them and one good day, if everything went well and got along naturally, they will fly. It is the law of life. The problem, the problems, come when the parents make them fly before they have opened their wings.
