(ESP/ENG) No te juzgo, sólo te acompaño en tu dolor, mamá migrante.

Introducción | Introduction

Hello beautiful @Motherhood family, once again I find myself among you and between the lines, sharing our experiences on this @hive platform that has given us the opportunity to connect as a woman, wife, daughter, friend and above all as mothers. Those of us who have this invaluable role know all that this responsibility entails, for this very reason today I want to share a topic that broke my heart, tears me many tears.The issue of migration in my country Venezuela is a case never seen in the almost 30 years that I have been alive, nor many years before, as it is known the problems that afflict our country, there are many families who have taken the risk and courage to cross borders to forge a better way, many thinking about the future they want for their children; however, in these journeys occur misfortunes of fate where mothers have lost the most valuable thing, and do not carry it in a suitcase but loaded or clutching hands, and are their children.

A few weeks ago I read two shocking cases, both cases in the same week, and I felt the greatest empathy towards these mothers. I want to tell you in a precise way about such delicate situations because I don't want to make morbid out of this, and I know that there are many cases like these, but reading them from a patriot hurts much more in the soul because we put ourselves in their desperate shoes. The first case was of a mother with a 7-year-old girl, trying to cross from Mexico to the U.S., her sweet daughter was swept away by the river and drowned. The second case, of a mother on her way to Chile, her 2-year-old baby died of sudden death during the crossing. Among these there are so many cases, but both made me realize that singling them out as irresponsible mothers is not the way to go.

EEUU/Venezuela.- Recuperan el cuerpo de una niña migrante venezolana de siete años ahogada en el río Bravo - Sociedad - COPE

Niño venezolano de dos años murió dentro de autobús donde viajaba rumbo a Chile - El Carabobeño (el-carabobeno.com)

As many commented on the networks "what was this woman thinking when she did that" and like that many judgmental comments, and I confess that one of the first thoughts that came to me was to point fingers, as mothers we would say: I would not expose my children to something like that! but I was much more invaded by empathy, grief and filial pain as a mother, just thinking that an unfortunate event takes away the most precious and the most important reason for emigrating is to feel totally devastated.

As a mother I feel their pain and I accompany them, I embrace them from a distance and pray to God for their comfort, it is a wound that will remain forever impossible to heal, so I am sure that a reproach or criticism will not help. If they already leave home dragging the pain of leaving the place where they grew up, for no mother it is easy, and for them everything is difficult enough, so I can only say EMPATHY for migrant mothers.