To fly Cabo My husband, with Alejandro, felt unnecessarily lighter to my arms. This was our first visit without our five -month -old daughter Ona. “She will recover,” my mother -in -law assured me the first night, as I killed Ona’s sandy hair.
Nevertheless, my heart felt a little hollow as the aircraft flew and Austin disappeared under the clouds. Will I be able to enjoy the next four days on the Baja Peninsula? Or would I keep crying my romantic holiday in a massage pillow and on the beach, seeing Ona’s face when I saw from my book, instead of crashed surf?
Ona, if you have been studying from this year now on, forgive me to tell me that these concerns – and all other frequent mother -in -law Panics about bottles, diapers and naps – when I was sitting on the roof of our suite, So it was melted from sunset. In Rosewood Las Ventanas al Paraos, By staring at the cortex’s ocean.
I did not realize, as I was doing so pleasing in the last five months, how badly I needed to calm myself. I was skilled in reading Ona’s signs – but what about me? The sea grabbed my gaze, robbing my framed nervous system (as the right Mexican Margharita did, Texon versions are a matter of shame). I rested my head on the shoulders of Alejandro. The explosions of Carmin Bougainwilia and Slate-Green Spikes held the desert landscape. I thought in a crowd, how tired I was. But here, unlike the house, I could relax.
First of all it was the time to get something big: a tasting a tasting in the hidden wine basement of the hotel. But as Elejandro and I entered the space, I felt that my shoulders were under stress. After months on a child and after raging, my adult vocabulary was clearly reduced, and my alcohol terms were forgotten. As I urged me to rely on myself from San Miguel de Alande of Jineveev Reox, the magnificent wine director of the hotel, to rely on myself.
“Women are very self-conscious of describing wine,” she said. Riox referred to her own tasting style as cinestatic: for example, when she listens to the debuce “Velvet, Flooti” wine, such as especially from “beautified AOCS”, she hears the debut La mer. “Complex and contradictory. there are no rules.”
Most women tolerate nausea in the first trimester during pregnancy. My whole day, every day, lasted for nine months. I could barely eat, work, or see friends. My only craving was no longer pregnant. I imagined what I would eat every day when I finally felt hungry again. If I could, I will take the victim back now and tell him that all this will be alright: she will have a beautiful, healthy daughter and soon sitting on a table, which tastes a seasonal tusks tusks. . Chef was prepared by Matteo Temporini. Bathing in Buffalo Mozerela with a local king Jhengi and in the third course with caviar with caviar with scalians, blueberries, goat cheese and marine bass giddy hairpin turns, food was excessive and enjoyable-I wanted everything.
The next morning, after a sweat-turned tennis match, Elle and I donated to Terry-Cloth Robs and moved towards the spa. I hope that the music and competent hands of the new era were working on the lumps that bounced the child in their shoulders. What we experienced was close to a rebirth. The treatment began with a treatment ceremony at the juicy outdoor lounge of the spa, where a small orchestra of local devices made the jungle sound again, completed with Jaguar scream. Massage was cleverly parlokik. But this was the hydrotherapy region – so often later – this spa was heartbeat heart. A chapel -like steam room, an icy pluse pool, a sauna set for the right temperature, and a guardant hot tub. Later, I looked at the Alejandro on the lounge chair next to me and before we both fell into a swaddled half-sleep, such as fresh baths like babies.
Thanks to a stable text stream smiling Ona from Elle’s parents, in Las Ventanas on the third day, I had rested in a new kind of maternity leave. One where you leave your child at home, believing that he is in love, and that you are completely recharged, will be hungry again.
In four decades before Ona’s birth, I had many things: a writer, a passenger, an athlete and a meal and a lover. In our four days in Las Ventanas, I re -connected with each of them, being pleased with fresh, new ingredients (easily the best hotel food elegendra and I have ever done) and a great with coach John Stein Private tennis lessons finally received one at the end to receive one. Goddam Pedicure. Let me keep it in this way: If one day you realize that your toenail polish is bigger than your child, like I did it, it’s time Run only with adults,
On our last night, fireworks still pierced the wind. In short mom mode, I got nervous: The noise will wake up! Then I remembered that she was sleeping fast in Texas. I joined the Alejandro outside to taste the display. Tomorrow, we will hold our daughter again in our arms, and will see her in surprise in the sunlight dancing on the roof as babies only. But tonight, it was our turn, it was our turn to keep the hair in a gold spark, like a child, and keeping each other near.
Couple therapy can strengthen your relationship and help you face your deep fear. But a couple’s holiday brought us back in love that made our daughter in the first place. Sometimes, the best upbringing is not about nutritional sacrifice. It is about taking a break, is basic in the sun, and lets yourself be Babit for once.
A version of this story first appeared in the February 2025 issue. Travel + holiday “Maternity leave under the title” maternity leave,