When SHE Wants!

Motherhood is a beautiful moment in a woman's life and the joy of that moment extends to all who are around. I have not yet got pregnant, but I have accompanied my sister and cousin throughout the process and it is truly rewarding, intense and refreshing to be a mother. I did not follow closely any friend or relative who works, has a job and was pregnant. So I do not know what obstacles they faced.

What made me write this post is that I intend to get pregnant soon and when people ask me how I'm going to work, it seems that a job is more important than playing your role as a woman who wants to be a mother. It seems that if you are an employee, the dream of being a mother should be delayed as long as you can because the important thing is the job, it is the salary, it is your place in the company that someone can "steal" during your absence.

Even though I started this post by answering my question, I am surprised that the same question is not answered by so many women I have talked about on the way to work on public transport. There is a fear, not about the time that will have to stop working (maternity leave, as it is called here in Brazil) to dedicate itself to the first months of the child, but as for the reaction of the employers.

I heard from people who hid that they were pregnant, so they would not leave their employers angry or listen to funny things, like "You got pregnant to take a vacation out of time." I talked to women who, telling the boss they were pregnant, heard comments that made them feel guilty, as if they had betrayed the boss. As if the pregnancy had to be aligned with the purposes of the company! Folks, that's absurd!

Women are not robots! The woman is pregnant and not forced to control how many children she will have. The quantity is according to your will and conditions. Each one is responsible for their decisions. We should not allow our employer to interfere with our decision to become pregnant, how many children we should have, or whether we will devote ourselves entirely to our children.

Woman, it's your choices! It's your dreams! It's your family waiting to be formed! And no one has the right to influence to the contrary. No woman signs a commitment term to just get pregnant in X years. Only the employment contract is signed and not the list of goals of your life from the perspective of your employer.

Have no doubt that I will post here on my boss's reaction on the day I give him this such wonderful news! Huauauauhauahuahua (I wanted to make a Machiavellian laugh here, but I do not know if it worked!)

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