Hello.
I write to you from the hospital. Of all the possible reasons why I could be here, this is, without a doubt, the best. Our daughter has already been born. The mother is fine. The baby is fine; His brothers are happy too. We are sleeping little, nothing we would not know in advance. We are enjoying this moment, aware of how important it is.
All who are also fathers or mothers you know perfectly. Few things are as demanding as parenting. Nothing changes your life, you will never stop worrying. But there is nothing in the world that gives you so much happiness. If you have already gone through this, you know how hard it is.
As I did with my previous son, I’m going to take the paternity permission. During the next few weeks, I leave all my work: the direction of eldiario.es and also my radio and television collaborations. I will return to mid -May and take the rest of the permission during the summer. In my absence, at the head of eldiaria.es, He stays as a coach Neus Tomàs. It was also the one who covered me when my previous son was born, in 2022, and I am sure that again he will do it phenomenal.
I know that you, like most of our members and members, understand this little break. Although three years ago, the first time I left eldiario.es for a while to take care of my second son, there were many people who hit him. Equal paternity permits are relatively recent – I didn’t have them with my eldest son. And when they were optional, the reality is that very few men in positions of responsibility used to be taken.
In my case I did it for three reasons: because it is my obligation, because it is a right of my family, because it is my right. They are the three reasons why, again, I have now decided to stop.
It is my obligation because the paternity permit is no longer optional. Legally you cannot give up him during the first six weeks after childbirth. Before it was not so, and I think change very well: it is the way to ensure that men really imply in the care of our children. It is good for families but also for parents, because raising a baby is something that every man should know. And because the possible pressure of entrepreneurs to their workers is also avoided to renounce that permission.
But in addition to a legal obligation, it is a right. And it’s not even mine. It is a right of my children’s mother, who neither should nor can the baby attend; The parenting is the responsibility of the two. It is a right of my baby, which needs his father. And it is also my right, because I know that these first weeks of my daughter’s life are moments that will never come back.
I know it will cost me to disconnect. I have never taken journalism simply as a job; It is much more. But the most important news of my life is my daughter, and I will not miss it.
I send you a hug. See you soon.
#goodbye #weeks
