Influencer Karoline Lima revealed on social media that Cecília, her daughter with player Éder Militão, was born hearing impaired. Answering a question box he opened on Instagram, Karol spoke about the guilt in motherhood and made this revelation about the results of the tests that the girl took in the first days of life.
“When Cecília was born, on the second day of her life, when they took her hearing test, she couldn’t hear anything in her left ear. She was born deaf. zero hearing. It was the worst day of my life because I’ve already started blaming myself. I figured I should have been calmer while she was in my tummy, that in the process of her making it was my fault for what happened,” the influencer began.
Continuing the story, Karol shared how she felt at the news: “They repeated the scans to see if there was a problem with the device and she really couldn’t hear anything. I cried so much, I prayed so much, I was so sad. Emotions when you just had a baby are all on the surface and I’ve already been through a lot of things and I started blaming myself because it wasn’t genetic. Neither family had any sort of affair, but I imagined what had been in the making because we know that everything that happens while we’re pregnant reflects the making of the baby. And I could only blame myself. Wow, it was a lot of guilt, it was a lot of pain.”
2 of 3 Karoline Lima and Cecília — Photo: Reproduction/Instagram Karoline Lima and Cecília — Photo: Reproduction/Instagram
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The influencer said that even after the test was repeated, the doctor requested another test for Cecília. “The doctor asked me to repeat the tests in a few days to see if we had any signs of hearing and during those 15 days I was very concerned. I didn’t tell anyone about it because I was hoping we’d do the test again, she even had a bit of hearing. Then I went to the doctor and we did the examination and her hearing was perfect,” revealed Karoline.
Cecília’s mother considers what happened to her daughter a miracle and said she viewed the guilt she felt at the time in a different way: “After I found out a miracle had happened, I shared it people and started to feel less guilty. But I’m telling you this so you can see that with motherhood comes the guilt for the mother. There are things we don’t even have to blame ourselves that much, but we blame ourselves and people blame us, they’re not even our responsibility”.
Karoline concluded by saying that after months of motherhood she was able to appreciate the weight she needed to give to each thing: “Today I see that it wasn’t my fault, that a lot of things aren’t my fault, that I dress it up I don’t have to make a lot of reproaches that i don’t have to carry that much weight because i do my best and that’s what counts.
Cecília is 8 months old and the daughter of Karoline and Éder Militão. The influencer moved to Madrid to live with Militão in August 2021, three months before she became pregnant. Their relationship ended before the girl was born and today Karol lives in São Paulo.
3 of 3 Éder Militão and Cecília — Photo: Reproduction/Instagram Éder Militão and Cecília — Photo: Reproduction/Instagram