{To the man who will love our daughter forever. Séraphina is the luckiest girl to have you as her father and first love❤. Happy first Father's Day @arnaudstephane. Bonne fête Papa! On t'aime❤❤❤} . . . . #FrenchFilipinoFamille #MarryingFrench #FilipinainFrance #motherhood
{Sur la côte} #France #PaysdelaLoire #FilipinainFrance #Printemps
{Outfit du jour: wearing baby🤗} #PinayMaman #Maman #FilipinainFrance #MotherhoodInStyle
{Nag shopping. Napasama sa gay pride parade. Amusant!😙💜} #LGBT #LGBTNantes #Weekends #FilipinainFrance #marchedesfiertes
{One of my last bumpie photos and then those taken 10 days after giving birth. Not picturrd: the pains of a long labor, being threatened with CS, postpartum recovery including an episiotomy, the travails and pains during the early days of breastfeeding, postpartum blues (crying for no reason at all!), and the terror of being alone with the baby as husband had to go back to work. Today it's been almost a month and there are still moments when I so miss being pregnant, especially feeling the baby's kicks. Then I see her and still can't help but be amazed that what I've been carrying the last 9 months is out. Strangely, it feels like she's always been here❤ #FilipinainFrance #keepingitreal #4thTrimester #takebackpostpartum #motherhood #Enceinte
{When she was only six days old and those smiles already working it for the camera. ❤❤❤ @aissa515 I have officially become one of those parents who post multitude of photos of their babies even if they look the same!😘😘😘 nyahaha} #frenchfilipinobaby #filipinainFrance #motherhood
{Tried to adopt po ge lai or the Chinese practice of postpartum recovery and confinement here in France. In ge lai, a new mother is under a strict regimen to restore her qi after childbirth, because the Chinese believe that a woman's body gets cold (chin) in childbirth so in order to restore the balance, there's an emphasis on taking food considered warming. This resonates with our Filipino concepts of lamig and binat---something which the French do not have! The day I gave birth the nurses made me walk to the bathroom to pee and I almost fainted! And they told me I can take a shower whenever I want. In strict ge lai, one is not even allowed to drink or to touch water and no bathing allowed for 1 month. In my French-Filipino postpartum adaptation, I only drank warm/hot water, no bathing/shower until I felt recovered enough (which for me was exactly 15 days after I gave birth, which coincidentally was also the first day I felt well enough to go out and go shopping😙) and ate soup-based food. And that meant I had an intense craving for chicken tinola, which Arnaud made for me with chayote/sayote instead of green papaya and spinach instead of malunggay leaves. How I wish I had dahon ng bayabas over here for wound treatment but overall, it was a good postpartum recovery💜} #FilipinainFrance #FrenchFilipinoFamille #takebackpostpartum #pinoyfood #postpartum
{We celebrate Fête des Mères/Mother's Day here in France today on the last Sunday of May, not on the 2nd as in the Philippines. Everyday I'm grateful for my Mama, but never more so than when I was giving birth to my own daughter two weeks ago. Throughout my labor, what gave me strength was the sure knowledge that my mother, despite the early hours on the other side of the world, was filled with care and concern and praying for me and my safe delivery. Today, honoring the pure and steadfast love of mothers, especially our own. Bonne fête Mama et Maman!💜💜💜} #FilipinainFrance #fêtedesmères #FrenchFilipinoFamille
{Someone's ready for summer🌻🌻🌻} #AlmostSummer #filipinainFrance #SpringBaby #frenchfilipinobaby
{Long weekend} #aperoatlast #FilipinainFrance #AlmostSummer #apero
