"Rooming in is an excellent thing. The baby in the room is a positive thing, even after the birth. You certainly need to be accompanied. Now we will see with Minister Schillaci, who yesterday made a statement saying that we will take care of these things quickly. Surely we will be able to do something".
Eugenia Roccella, the minister for the Family, Natality and Equal Opportunities, said this during the broadcast "L'Aria che Tira" on La7 Eugenia Roccella when asked about the death of the newborn at the Pertini hospital in Rome.
For pregnant women "we want to rebuild that network that was previously a spontaneous network of kinship and community, which is no longer there, rebuild it through a proximity welfare. For example, there is a lot of talk about
telemedicine
. I myself went to the pediatrician a thousand times more than what would have been necessary. So why not have a connection with the midwife, with someone in the hospital who can give suggestions when you have doubts, tells you what to do," said Roccella.
"
After giving birth, women are in a very delicate moment
. I remember that when a friend of mine came, not my mother because she wasn't very maternal, she wasn't interested in motherhood, immediately after giving birth I said 'don't have children' this was my comment. Obviously then I made them. It is evident that we are in a moment of great fragility, of extreme tiredness, also of great happiness, of need, of company and of care. Also because today women are not more accustomed to having a child in their arms. That chain of female knowledge has been interrupted", said Roccella.
"I
care that women are free to have children
. That they do not experience the obstacles they experience today if they choose to have children. We know that the desire for motherhood is unchanged. Still today women say they want two children, then they do one or none, or they do them at the age of 40. The situation demonstrates a difficulty, obstacles that politics, the legislator must try to overcome", underlined the minister.
With regard to abortion, "
we want to fully apply law 194. Sometimes those who defend it do not know it
. It is strange but law 194 is the only law we have, beyond the Constitution where motherhood is mentioned at least in three articles, which establishes the social value of motherhood, i.e. something that is being lost today: the idea that a woman who has a child does not only make a personal choice, but does something that is useful to the whole community and therefore should be rewarded Roccella said.
