The famous Susana Zabaleta opened up about the ups and downs she experienced when she brought her first daughter into the world. Sometimes when a celebrity has a baby, we see magazine-worthy photos that make us think they had it easy. But there are some, like the singer, who are encouraged to reveal the less ideal scenarios in which they have been and who remind us that in motherhood no one is spared from unexpected situations.
Susana Zabaleta has conquered the Mexican stage and screen. Her voice has fascinated adults and she is remembered by children for interpreting Colors in the Wind in Pocahontas. Even so, in her plans was not only the life of an artist but also to start a family. According to the singer, when she met Daniel Gruener, the father of her children, she was very clear about her wishes.
"I told him: 'Hello, you and I are getting married, we will have a son who will be called either Mateo or Matías.' She told me: 'Don't say that because you look crazy,' ”she revealed. However, Susana assures that that same madness was what she conquered who was her husband for 23 years.
But that desire to be a mother came true by surprise. Susana recounts that, during a meeting at her house with the cast of the film, with modesty and tears, she realized that a smell of hers began to upset her, so they told her that she was surely pregnant. That same day, Gruener bought three pregnancy tests that unanimously confirmed that the artist was pregnant.
At that time in her life, the actress's career was on the rise and it was in April 1999, when little Elizabetha, her firstborn, came into her life. But before carrying the long-awaited baby in her arms, Zabaleta had to face a complicated delivery. The artist recalls that she wanted to take a bath before going to the hospital and that at that moment she felt unbearable pain.
She said that during the journey to the hospital, she felt that the little girl was about to come out of her. "I didn't get [to the hospital], I mean, I got to the parking lot," she recalled. “They were the most horrendous 20 minutes of my existence. I arrived and 10 minutes later I had it”.
Contrary to popular belief, according to a University of Michigan psychiatry professor, women actually have a lower tolerance for pain compared to men, but chemicals in the brain that suppress the pain.
Even so, the pain is very strong, so it is not surprising that more than 70% of women who have a child choose to use an epidural to reduce that sensation. Bearing this in mind, what Susana felt in those eternal 20 minutes on the way to the hospital is left to the imagination.
Despite being a tough experience, the singer assures that in the last few minutes, she did not feel pain and her body relaxed a lot. Thanks to the success that she was having in the cinema for her new film, after her pregnancy she began to be recognized on the street and despite her new fame, she decided to prioritize her motherhood.
Although since she had her first daughter, more successes have come in her career, she assured me that she likes the experience of being a mother much more. In 2007, she even decided to adopt her second child, thus bringing the long-awaited Matías into her life.
