The motherhood journey has its fair share of ups and downs, but for those who delivered during the COVID-19 quarantine, fears, worries, and motherhood realisations were amplified.
Mommy Mundo Learns: Distance Brings Us Together
As the popular saying goes, it takes a village to raise a child. Now more than ever this rings true. Child-rearing has always been dependent on the nuclear family and, beyond that, the tribe that mothers foster and bring towards them.
#MakeTimeForMeaning with MommyMundo Events in May
Keeping true to our mission of being here for you, the Mommy Mundo Team has lined up even more online events and learning sessions this month of May. Our theme for the month is to #MakeTimeForMeaning and each of our Mommy Mundo Learns sessions and events were conceptualised to help all Mommy Mundo moms make the most of this month and bring meaning back to the everyday!
Mom Spotlight: Gellina Suderio, MD.
Overcoming fears is a challenge every person faces at least once in their lifetimes. For many of the frontliners of the Novel CoronaVirus, or COVID-19, it is a daily occurrence. Everyday, doctors are waking up with fear–fear for themselves, fear for their patients, fear for their families, fear for the world–and everyday they overcome those fears and get to work.
Mom Spotlight: Abigail Zaraspe, MD.
In the fight against COVID-19, however, frontliners find that seeking that balance is harder than ever because their work now has direct–and potentially dire–consequences to their life.
Despite the seriousness of this, however, Dr. Abigail Zaraspe, who practices Internal Medicine-Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine at the Makati Medical Center, manages to keep things light.
Mom Spotlight: Karen Lamorena-Realo, MD.
A “frontliner” in the fight against Coronavirus, or COVID-19, Doc Karen made the decision to send her daughter to her family’s province to go and live with her parents and grandparents while she stayed in Manila with her husband to fulfill her duty as a medical professional.
Mom Spotlight: Cricket Manotok-Santiago, MD.
It’s experiences like these that she knows have changed her forever. Manotok-Santiago discovered her ability to be truly brave, to defy her fears and fight a silent and invisible opponent. It was in being a frontliner that she realised how much she loves her job, and rediscovered her purpose and responsibility as a doctor and a mother.
