A little over a month ago we could see the documentary “Time to be a mother”, which aired on La2, in the program “The thematic night”, in October 2007. Another of the documentaries that were part of that night was “Three sisters and a baby“, A documentary full of conflicting emotions (or at least that is what I felt when I saw it).
The story is as follows: Alex is a woman who was diagnosed with uterine cancer when she was 28 years old. The treatment affected her fertility, preventing her from having children just at the time she wanted to be a mother.
Following this situation Alex and his two sisters begin an unprecedented process in the United Kingdom in which Charlotte, her twin sister, will donate her eggs to be fertilized by Shaun's sperm, Alex's husband. Helen, her other sister, will be the one who will gestate Alex's future baby
The documentary lasts 50 minutes and it shows the whole process from the decision-making process to carry out the “plan”, to the fertilization, gestation and delivery of the baby.
During the viewing you will, for sure, put on the skin of the three sisters and feel a cluster of probably contradictory emotions, rejoicing for the objective achieved, but doubting whether the end justifies the means.
I am not a woman, I do not know what it is to be pregnant nor do I know what it is to give birth, but it is easy for me to feel that it must be very hard to have a baby in your womb for nine months to not even catch it after birth.
On the other hand, it must be very hard to be 28 years old and know that you can never have your own children.
Therein lies the ambivalence of emotions produced by this documentary, depending on whose skin you wear, you will feel one thing or another.
What do you think.
