The touching words of a Vox representative about the experience of being a mother

One of the great problems of our time is that fewer and fewer babies are being born. This is not a problem that has arisen by mere chance.

Destroying an entire world: the millions of people who do not exist because of abortion
Not 'interruptions': 2.86 million abortions in Spain explained without euphemisms

Some politicians and media outlets have been discrediting motherhood for many years, presenting it as a burden for women, denying all help to pregnant mothers who need it and promoting the greatest slaughter of our time: that perpetrated by abortion, a slaughter that is directed against the weakest and most defenseless members of our own species, while they dedicate themselves to approving all kinds of laws to protect animals and plants.

That is why it is appreciated to read a message from a mother who is dedicated to politics: Isabel Pérez Moñino, MP and spokesperson for Vox in the Madrid Assembly, on the occasion of the ninth anniversary of the birth of her first child. I am transcribing her full message here because I found it moving, and because I think it is very necessary to vindicate motherhood and promote messages to recognize the enormous role that mothers have in our society:

I became a mother for the first time 9 years ago. It's never the perfect time, but I knew from a young age that I wanted to be a mother and I fulfilled my dream as soon as I could. Without luxuries, with sacrifices, with family help, without savings, without everything being perfect, self-employed and without maternity leave, but everything went well. Everything works out if you want it to.

I was 28 years old and I have to admit that that day fear ran through my body in that cold hospital room, where it was less cold thanks to the warmth and affection of the professionals who attended to us. A 10 to Puerta del Hierro.

The birth of my first child was the most beautiful moment of my life, without a doubt. (Along with the birth of his sisters). I cried when I saw him, I cried with excitement, I cried with tenderness, I cried after so many months waiting for him, and those last hours that meant almost one more month for me. Week 41 (uff). 55 centimeters and 4.590 kg (yes, very big like his heart).

A very long day in which you discover what the coordinated body and mind are capable of. Since then, few things hurt.

When I had him on top of me, suddenly that wait and pain were forgotten and moments began to arrive that I will never be able to forget. Those hands, that smell, those cries, that little mouth that had become the most beautiful ultrasound I have ever seen: the first one they did on me, where a 6-week-old heart was beating strongly inside my uterus. 6 weeks! It's life. Pure life. Without a doubt!

Being a mother is the best thing I've ever done in my life and motherhood has never been a hindrance to anything. It may have been more complicated than for other people without children, but I've always achieved the goals I've set for myself. With a backpack, with dark circles, more tired, but you get there if you want.

Being a mother makes you discover yourself, it makes you better every day, because every day has a special goal, which is to be an example for them. There are no breaks, no truces, no leave, but there is love, a beautiful love that can do anything, even when you think you can't do it anymore.

Many of you ask me how I organize myself to do everything, to be on the front line of politics with 3 children. Well, they, my 3 children, are my strength, my incentive and my desire to leave them a better future, and thanks to my family that helps me, loves me and supports me. (Fundamental).

I have always thought that it is necessary for MOTHERS to be on the front line of politics (there are very few) because we have developed qualities and abilities that are not taught in universities, or in the street, or in books, or with the best advisors, and that make us empathize with all family policies, so necessary, and because we fight for something more than ourselves and our own navel, we fight to leave a better future for the generations to come.

I do a daily master's degree: love, self-improvement and, above all, being an example for them, which is the best book I can give them.

Happy day to the greatest love, that of a son who grows at the speed of light. Happy 9th, R.

---

Photo: Vox Madrid.