"Until you experience motherhood, you don't know what you're going to feel"

For me, motherhood has been a radical change of priorities. Everything I thought was important has gone into the background, I felt myself disappear to become a different person. Having someone who depends on you to survive is something really overwhelming, but at the same time it's wonderful, because that little person also adores you and makes you fall in love, so many things start to matter to you.

My perception of motherhood has changed radically, I think you can't imagine something like that. Until you live it you don't know what you're going to feel. And what they have told you is not worth it, since each woman experiences motherhood differently.

. I have more patience than I would have imagined.

. I feel more sure of myself.

. I am thankful every day.

. I don't waste time, neither at work (focusing and not procrastinating) nor in life (I'm less interested in superficial and empty things. If something doesn't help me or fills me up, there's no point in paying attention to it).

Well juggling, hehehe. At first it was very difficult for me. But with the help of my mother and the full support of my partner, I am succeeding. It is true that my day has been drastically reduced. Before having Candela, I could perfectly work 12 hours a day, including weekends. Now I work about 4/5 hours a day. This decrease has meant that I cannot do some things that I would like to, for example, create new collections, set goals for myself, look for distributors, update the communication plan. Let's say that I limit myself to serving orders and updating the networks.

But the truth is that I feel grateful and proud to be able to respond to all orders within the normal time frames, and continue to grow day by day in sales volume. It is not a small thing considering that I carry out the entire project by myself. So there will be time for that later. I feel very lucky to be able to enjoy my little girl's early years without giving up on my project.

I made the first stuffed animals to give to a friend's children, and from then on I haven't stopped. Before Lele Lerele I had a rather boring administrative job. Although I had studied industrial design and that was within me, I wanted to release my creative side so I started the project as entertainment, but when I lost my job I decided to bet on it.

Motherhood came when the project was already consolidated, so it has not had much influence. In part I am grateful because, although self-employment allows you to reconcile more easily than working for someone else, it must be recognized that this is very difficult to happen in the first phases of the project, in which you have to give everything and work many hours without hardly see any fruit. At least that was the beginning in Lele Lerele. I personally don't know if I would have been able to do everything I did in Lele Lerele's early years if it had coincided with motherhood.

As a mother, I hope to continue enjoying Candela's first experiences to the fullest. I would like to continue spending as much time with her as possible, and who knows, hopefully one day we will increase the family. As an entrepreneur I am in a very pleasant and sweet moment. In which I feel that the pieces fit together very well, I would like to continue like this with this flow, which allows me to enjoy my daughter and also my work.

What advice would you give to a mother who wants to start a business?

Be authentic and find your own voice.

Did you have a lot of stuffed animals when you were little? What did that stuffed animal mean to you?

The truth is that I didn't have many, but the ones I did have were very important to me, I really imagined that they had life and I was very fond of them. They protected me at night from bad dreams and during the day they were the protagonists of the games.

Were you one of those who took the stuffed animal on vacation?

Of course! Hehehe he was one of those, and if I forgot at home I would cry thinking about how sad he would have been because we had abandoned him, full of drama!

My plans are quite simple:

-Go to the beach, I am one of those who enjoys battered in sand playing to make castles

-A hammock, a book and the shade of a tree

-A good swimming pool, mats and to play.

-A caravan trip

-A cool dinner on the terrace with the sound of crickets in the background.

This has been all family. But before saying goodbye, we want to rescue this from the “flow” that Elena mentions. Or we encourage you to become seekers of that state of calm and sweetness, in which the work and the upbringing of the little ones find balance. We know that it is a simple thing for us, but if at the end of the day there are more “flow moments” than the others, it is an achievement achieved. What do you think?

Now we have reached the end and apparently the next stop suggested by Elena is @noemarinstudio and just by taking a look at her creations we are already flying through the clouds of how beautiful everything is. We like more and more to go in search of the testimony of the moms and dads who inspire us so much on the networks.

Happy summer!

Arrivederciii