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In order to celebrate Mother\u2019s Day accordingly, three important Bota Bota female figures gave me a bit of their time to talk about motherhood and the changes that it has brought to their lives. An everyday adventure, which is lived through different stages and emotions. An opportunity to navigate life, its storms and sandy beaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie P., Chief Beautician<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie\u2019s big blue eyes evoke a delicate tenderness when she mentions Milan, her first- and one-year old child: “It’s only happiness and a lot of love”. French native from Avignon, she arrived in Montreal with her spouse, who\u2019s also French, in search of new challenges. A change of air, the opportunity to discover a new country: a project that she feared, which turned out to be quite pleasant. Becoming a new mother in Montreal, of a little boy who holds a dual nationality, she takes on a new adventure every day: “It is definitely a lot of work and it can sometimes be tiring, but he gives us so much love so we tend to quickly forget the more difficult times “.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I\u2019ve become confident,” she tells me about this new role which she takes on with ease and determination, “I\u2019ve matured and grown up, my priority is my family.” This family cocoon, Marie will be reinforcing it with a Canadian citizenship she and her spouse will be getting soon. She\u2019s aware that the life they have chosen, the expatriate life, is one that her son might one day choose as well: “I just want him to be happy, no matter what his life choices are or the experiences he\u2019ll want to try. If he wants to discover the world like us … it’ll be worth it”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To new mothers, she advises not to worry too much: “The maternal instinct comes easily. We often ask ourselves a lot of questions before the birth, we wonder if we will be a good mother, and then it all kind of happens and kicks in. We all need to make our own idea of \u200b\u200bpregnancy and motherhood”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genevi\u00e8ve E., General Director<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genevi\u00e8ve greets me in her bright office. In the distance, Bota Bota\u2019s steam melts with the clouds, hanging low on this grey spring day. Her very first baby who\u2019s lived a thousand lives, stands proud, docked at the Old Port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Work for me has never been an obligation because I love what I do,” she says. Genevi\u00e8ve never counted her hours and motherhood was a certain adjustment in an already busy life: “It has been a bigger change than I expected in my life, for the better, but I have definitely much more prioritization to do”. A three-and-a-half-year-old little girl demands a kind of organization she\u2019ll never really get used to, she confides with a laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genevi\u00e8ve did not plan her life around the idea of \u200b\u200bbecoming a mother:\n“It was not necessarily obvious. I think it was a question of being with\nthe right person who wanted to have children as well”. What she was\ncertain about though, was that if she started a family, it would be with two\nchildren. She slips a discreet hand on her belly, announcing the beginning of her\ngranted wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I wish my children a planet which they can live and breathe on”.\nShe tells me about her childhood cabin in the woods and the big lake, a memory\nand a lifestyle she hopes to offer her children as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Being a businesswoman and a mother has taught Genevi\u00e8ve to establish herself,\nto follow the path she has built with patience and will. She tells me about the\nimportance of the concept of independence and her wish to see Maya, her\ndaughter, able to make her own decisions, based on her values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeannine V., Massage therapist<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find Jeannine as I had left her<\/a>, surrounded by her magic aura and her soothing voice. She tells me about her unexpected pregnancy, following health complications at a young age: “She is my miracle,” she tells me about her daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We planned\na life without children. And then\nwhen I got pregnant, I was followed by a doctor who told me that the baby was\nnot going to survive, that I should not get attached\u201d. Today, at 25, Nicole is\nstill standing tall, making her mother so proud. “She taught me to love\nsomeone unconditionally, to not hold a grudge. She taught me to grow\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeannine remains true to her principles: saying things as they are so her daughter can live her most authentic life. She explains the current reality of women, which translates in a world where relationships are increasingly difficult: “There are so many uncertainties, relationships are so strange\u2026 it\u2019s hard to get into a relationship, it\u2019s hard to trust people, so many wounded, looking out for the less wounded\u201d. With over 50% of marriages ending in divorce, Jeannine has always advised her daughter to prepare for the possibility of a life in which she would have to raise children alone. “Get your foundation, and no matter what happens you\u2019ll always be able to take care of yourself\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeannine believe in signs, in unexpected gifts brought on by life: \u201cEverything happens for a reason. I was supposed to have Nicole, and there\u2019s a reason she\u2019s here.  Children have the ability to put us on a new path if we let them. They have us embrace the best version of ourselves through them, and I think that\u2019s a true gift. She made me better\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by \u00a9Florian Van Schreven<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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