Moms bloggers: Melisa, from the Madre Madre blog, visits us

Since in a few days we will celebrate the Mother's Day, from Babies and more we wanted to invite most influential blogging moms to honor them in their day, and through them, to all mothers.

We want to know in depth the women and mothers behind each blog, so our first guest is Melisa, author of the Madre Madre blog. He is 38 years old, a journalist and has two children, Julia, 5, and Jaime, 7, who has autism.

It is a cross between Asturian and Extremadura, is married, has two cats, a very old dog (all adopted) and three aquariums with tropical fish. He likes to go jogging, does not eat meat and is finishing his second novel while trying to publish the first.

What led you to start a blog?

It was not what, it was who: the director of my newspaper. When his blog section started 20 minutes, Arsenio Escolar wrote to the editorial asking for blog proposals when Jaime was a baby of a few months. I proposed one of the other themes and he, in turn, told me about making a blog about motherhood. So all the merit is yours.

"Having a child with autism has made me more aware of what is really important, of my limits, of my dreams, joys and frustrations."

What has the blog contributed to you?

Thanks to the blog I have met, physically and virtually, many people who are worth it.

I have learned, I have tried to help in small cases whenever I have been able, I have made dissemination whenever I have been able, I have tried to convey the need to respect children and to adopt methods of parenting that take them into account, it has been a diary of my maternity (if I want to remember when Jaime fell the first tooth I have nothing more to consult), I have enjoyed seeing the corridors of mothers and fathers who shared their experiences (first in comments, now on social networks), I have incorporated the fact that Jaime has autism (we discovered it when the blog was already almost two years old) trying to normalize the fact of being a family in which one of its members has a disability giving visibility to autism in particular.

I could go on ... But I don't know why the hell I'm talking in the past if I intend to end up telling my experience as a mother of teenagers. As a grandmother, if blogs continue to exist (probably by then they put us on the Internet intravenously).

How has it changed you to have a child with autism? What have you learned from him?

Everything in life transforms us, a pity that tries to pass through this world as a monolith. I believe that now I am able to value even more and better the small details and moments of day to day, which are the ones that really bring happiness from the hand. And it has made me walk being more aware of what is really important, of my limits, of my dreams, joys and frustrations.

It has made me, in short, be more awake. For years I have the feeling that when we get older, if we do it fairly well, what we do is to be more and more awake in every way.

What advice would you have liked to receive when you became a mother?

Follow your instinct.

What is the best gift they can give you for Mother's Day?

Laughter, kisses and achuchones. And if they insist heavily on something material, then a good book, a garment for sports or a cooking course. Jewelry never, chocolates either.

It has been a great pleasure to have Melisa, from Recent Mother, for our Special Moms Bloggers. It is the first of a few interviews, so watch out that tomorrow we present another very special guest.

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