Yes, now I'm an Advocate!

I have been living the two best weeks that I've had since I became a stay home mom, but first let me tell you my story…

I used to work a lot, as a Marketing Specialist I worked since I have 19 years old (Now I have 32); I was deeply passionate with my profession and my jobs. During my career and while I was pregnant, I truly believe that i can do it all, (like being a mother and still working, and maintain my house), but when my baby boy born and my whole world change immediately; he was premature, with low weight and he was a high demand little baby (didn’t sleep, crying all day and night, with 10 minutes naps, hating: bath, diapers changes, cloth changes, walks in the stroller, stay still, etc…)

I felt so bad and so lost, like a really disaster mom, I also had baby blues (or postpartum depression) i just want to be with my baby, take care of him, love him, but i don't want to see anybody else (even my husband); so what else can I tell … there are no really the best days…

Then the first 4 months past and I have to return to my job, and my baby was still the same high demand little boy; I could’t do it and I decided to give up and dedicate myself to him, to my family and my house chores; it was a really though decision for me and during those days I enjoy and love my baby with all my hearth (really) but I felt that I loose myself everyday.

Meanwhile we had to move to a new city because of my husband’s work (no family and friends), this make my situation even worse and my adaptation to my new life longer and longer. During my baby blues and my period of adaptation to my new life I used to cry and think about the people who are hungry and live in poverty and that surely had many more problems than mine; and for those days I felt inspired to use what I do best to help others…

The time pass and I applied to a lot of remote non profit jobs in marketing and advertising, but I didn’t have a response; but recently I red about the borgenproject.org, and applied for a Remote PR/Marketing Internship; I thought I was not going to get the position, since they only hire 7% of the people who apply; but here I’m now as a PR/Marketing Intern in an incredible nonprofit organization that is addressing poverty and hunger and working towards ending them.

I want to write this because I know there are many mothers, fathers and people in general who may be living something similar and I want them to know that there is always something to do and that we can use our gifts to help others.

So it has been two amazing weeks, and I feel that I find myself again

I’m an advocate and I’m working to make a better world for my child doing what I know best…

https://borgenproject.org/ana-paola-soria-galvarro/