Three months after giving birth to her first-born, the driver Soledad Onetto She opened up about her experience being a mother at 47 years old. In an interview with El País, the journalist, who will resume her work on the Channel 13 news program in the coming days, addressed her greatest fears after becoming the mother of Borja, her first-born child.
“I feel like I am in a transcendental moment in my life,” the communicator confessed at the outset. Although the host defends the personal decision of whether or not to want to have children, she assures that she feels more than happy and satisfied with the process she is experiencing after Borja’s arrival. “Personally, and now that this process has passed, I can only say that it would not have been good to miss this experience. I had to live it, to experience it, to enjoy it and suffer it,” she expressed.
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Regarding the changes she has faced in her mothering process, Onetto points out that “It has been radical.” In that sense, he explains that “it has been months that, despite all the years of working and being very connected, I have experienced a different disconnection, of walking like in a cloud.”
“Now I am more in reality because I am ready to return,” said the journalist, who in the coming days will resume her work on the C13 newscast. “The first two months were like feeling like there was nothing that important. That what they talked to me about, what was happening in the world, nothing was as relevant as Borja”he detailed.
Her fears of being a new mother after 40
After suffering the loss of a baby, Soledad Onetto began a new treatment to conceive Borja, who came into the world when the entertainer was already 47 years old.
When asked if it bothers her that her age “is an issue,” Onetto points out: “Andrés and I laugh. He told me: “Borja is going to reach the world, he is going to look at us and say, my grandparents came to look for me.” We were dying of laughter. None of that offends me and it is logical and natural that people talk about it because 47 years is 47 years.”
Along the same lines, she adds that after becoming a mother after the age of 40, she has faced some fears as a first-time mother. “The first time we went to the pediatrician, she said to me: ‘How are you? I’m fine, I told him, but I’m basically afraid he’s going to drown. It is my permanent, constant fear, at night, during the day. And she tells me: ‘I have bad news for you. From here on out that fear will only mutate, because it will remain until the day you die.”the communicator recalled.
In this regard, he reflects: “That’s part of being a mother, although of course it’s not all. And perhaps something that describes it well is that for the first time I am afraid of dying.”.
Finally, the journalist remembered a phrase she said in the past and that, unlike before, no longer makes the same sense to her.
“I once said it to a group and they were very surprised. I said: “If life wants to take me today, let it take me. Because I have really done everything I have wanted, there is nothing that has restricted me or that I have not achieved a dream,” she recalled.
“But now, for the first time, because of Borja, I am afraid of dying, afraid that my son will be left without me. And for him I want to live as long as possible,” said the TV presenter.
