The president of the Junta de Andalucía Susana Díaz has nothing left to become a mother for the first time. She will leave accounts on July 23 (she gave birth yesterday -see update-) and as she has commented to the press she plans to take advantage of the maternity leave shared with her husband because it is "a right that women have earned."
Yolanda Rosado, journalist and mother, told her very clearly in her blog I tell you short: "I hope not to see you when you give birth" expressing, through your message, the desire of many mothers who also want to stop seeing Susana Diaz for a long season.
And I can't agree more. I think for the good of all, Susana Diaz should enjoy her complete maternal leave for two blunt reasons. Susana (let me tell you about you): your son will need you more than anyone else in the world and you have a duty to set an example.
Your baby will need you
Because as you well say, Susana, "five days is not a maternity leave" (although it has not been played to specify the time that will be taken, has said for the time "you may have"). Indeed, five days after giving birth, what you least want is to be working. I tell you why:
First, because after giving birth you will not be able to go to work. Possibly you will still be sore, with the hormones revolutionized and in full rise of milk. Your body will only be for your baby.
Second, because when you take it in your arms for the first time you will not want to separate from it for a second. Because when you are born, you will not mind all the important decisions you have to make or the stacks of paper to sign that will accumulate on your desk. Your baby will need you like any newborn needs his mother, whoever you are and have the position you have.
And third, because as much as Andalusian citizens need you, your son will need you more. And he will need you as much time as possible with him.
It is clear that the comment "five days is not a maternity leave" was not free. It was a little message under the table for Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, who in 2011 returned to work 10 days after giving birth to her son, giving up the four weeks of leave she still had to enjoy. Often, the current vice president and spokesperson for the Government did the mothers then.
You have the duty to set an example
Why do we think about what Susana Diaz should do with her maternity leave? Why shouldn't I do what I want and now? Because it is not the opposite neighbor. You can do what you want, but she is famous and pregnant. And besides, he has a political position.
Since it was announced that I was waiting for a baby, we all saw how the belly grew month after month in each public appearance. Because in a way your pregnancy is everyone's pregnancy and as a public figure that is, and also political, has the responsibility to set an example.
Because no matter how important it may be, that many women outside politics also have them, politicians, businessmen and all citizens must understand the importance of motherhood for society. And "visible" women have the power, and the duty, to prove it and fight for it.
All mothers and future mothers We hope you enjoy the 16 weeks of maternity leave Which are established by law. But I also hope, Susana, that you find them very short and you can do something to extend it to six months, time that coincides with the exclusive breastfeeding that WHO recommends, something that has been asked for a long time from several sectors and everyone becomes distracted.
UPGRADE (07/31/2015): Susana Díaz gave birth to her baby yesterday at the Virgen de Valme Hospital in Seville. Hospital sources have reported that it has weighed 2.9 kilos and the delivery has been by scheduled caesarean section.
