“I’m breastfeeding, so now I’ve left Matilde sleeping in the dressing room.” Federica Pellegrinithree months after giving birth he doesn’t separate from his for a moment little Matilda and, when it arrives in the studios of very true with Matteo Giunta for the interview with Silvia Toffaninher little girl is safe a few meters from mom and dad.
The theme of the interview can only be this little life that opened up another world to the champion and her partner, and also a happiness different from that which came from so many laurels.
The beginning of this new life, not even for a steel athlete like Federica Pellegrini, was easy, on the contrary. Matilde had to wait a long time, and the birth was complicated and painful. In fact, the new mother tells us:
“She was supposed to be born on December 29th, she was born on January 3rd 2024, the Olympic year! But she was actually pulled out, if it were up to her she would have stayed a few more days. We did an emergency caesarean section, she weighed 3.900 kilos, and she was already quite long. I suffered a lot, I had contractions even the preparatory ones, very violent, I couldn’t even stand up and even after the epidural I was very behind and we went to the operating room, shortly thereafter Matilde L was born ‘she saw Matteo before me, then she arrived, she attached herself immediately: that first cry was a liberation.”
Very true, Federica Pellegrini mother: “I discovered another level of happiness”
The beginning of a new life, with all its joys and difficulties: “It wasn’t easy at first. After such a birth, the first week was difficult, I went through some very difficult moments, but I had Matteo, my mother and all my family close to me. Once you get over those moments I have to say that everything is beautiful.”
The experience of breastfeeding, for example, which Pellegrini describes like this: “When I breastfeed, it’s me and her alone, it’s a very intimate and powerful moment, as if there were an invisible thread between us“.
Matilde, like every newborn, was a real revolution in the life of mother Federica and father Matteo: “We are discovering a new level of happiness. It’s not easy because until the last day of the pregnancy we went where and when we wanted, now we have to organize ourselves but now she’s starting to interact, and when she looks at us, she recognizes us and smiles at us, as a mother, as a father it’s happiness pure.”
Silvia Toffanin asks if Matilde has already experienced the environment most loved by mum and dad, water and this is Divina’s response: “We take baths almost every day and she likes it a lot, soon I will take her to do aquatic activities “.
While waiting for Matilde’s first “dive”, her mother returned to the pool: “Me I went back to the pool because I needed to feel my body a little, the muscular stimuli that I was used to feeling before, It has nothing to do with the desire to lose weight as they wrote, that will come. I really needed to feel my body, it was nice.”
A taste of a previous life, from which Federica Pellegrini took everything possible, a chapter which however is now closed as another one opens up to be experienced and discovered:”I will always miss the adrenaline of racinga different happiness, which I think I will never feel again in life, unless perhaps Matilde is competing for some different sporting goal, but now I have another level of happiness, new and different”.
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