Ser sin ser madre : Mapa para la NO maternidad por la matrona de las mujeres sin hijos

Gloria Labay longed to be a mother. She tried alone and with a partner, through natural childbirth and assisted reproduction, both biologically and through adoption. She didn't succeed. Her search lasted seven years and included four miscarriages and being labeled "unsuitable" as an adoptive mother. All this while working as a midwife, witnessing other people's motherhood and carrying a silent wound that found no social space to be acknowledged, requiring immense personal resilience. In these pages, written without taboos, the author shares her journey from the moment she first harbored her maternal desire to the painful yet liberating moment when she decided to let it go. At the same time, she points out the contradictions of a society that idealizes motherhood only to neglect those who nurture life from its very beginning, as well as the shadows of the infertility industry, a booming business that often operates without the necessary empathy and transparency.