MANILA, Philippines, May 3 ------ Angeline Quinto said that when her adoptive mom, Sylvia “Mama Bob” Quinto, passed away, she lost all desire to work and perform. But then, motherhood happened. It gave the singer-actress a newfound purpose in life.
Her son Aziel Sylvio, who was named after her Mama Bob, just turned one last April 27. “The happiness na in-expect ko, mas sobra pala. Iba pala talaga. Siguro ang masasabi ko, hindi siya madali. But yung pagbalanse ng oras sa work and sa anak, yun ang talagang mas inayos ko. (The happiness that I expected turned out to be more. It’s really different. Maybe what I can say is, it’s not easy. Balancing my time between work and caring for my child, that’s what I really worked on more),” Angeline told The STAR in a recent interview.
The first time she saw her baby boy, the 33-year-old newbie mommy was so scared to hold him. “Kasi ang liit-liit niya. Sabi sa akin ng isang nurse, ma’am hindi kita tuturuan (paano hahawakan siya) subukan mo lang. Tapos pagbuhat ko sa kanya marunong pala ako. (Because he was so small. And then a nurse told me, ma’am I won’t teach you how to hold him, just try. When I carried him, I actually knew how to do it),” she recalled.
While Sylvio came unexpectedly into her life, she could say she was ready for his arrival. “Hindi sa ayaw ko but hindi ko lang in-expect na parang kakawala lang kasi ni Mama, wala pang one year, nung nalaman kong buntis ako. Pero sobrang nagpapasalamat ako kasi dumating siya. Kasi pagkawala ni Mama, hindi ko kakayanin. (It’s not that I didn’t want to, but I just didn’t expect it because Mama had just passed away, less than a year from when I found out Iwas pregnant. But I am very thankful that he came. Because after losing Mama, I couldn’t handle it.)”
She continued, “It got to the point where I didn’t want to work, I didn’t want to sing, I didn’t want to do anything. When Mama was gone, I thought, for whom am I working hard for? Para kanino ako nagpapagod?” “Yun din ang tinanong ko sa Diyos, kung wala ang Mama, ano ang purpose ko sa buhay? Eto na pala yun. Ito yung sagot sa akin ni Lord. (That’s really what I asked God, with Mama no longer with us, what is now my purpose in life? This is the Lord’s answer to me),” she further said of motherhood. “When Sylvio came, he directed me to my priorities in life after Mama Bob.”
Having a child has also inspired Angeline to be more entrepreneurial. From her own journey, she realized how important it is for a mom to take care of herself and her child from pregnancy to childbirth. She can now relate to a lot of mommies nowadays being choosy with their products. That’s why, she said, she decided to put up her own “vegan, hypo-allergenic, cruelty-free, FDA-approved and proudly Filipino-made” line of baby and mommy care products called Twinqle.
According to Angeline, her goal along with that of her business partners for Twinqle is to create quality, effective and affordable products that address the skincare needs of babies (from top-to-toe wash, atopic soothing lotion, outdoor spray to diaper rash cream) and their mommies (from stretch mark oil to nursing balm).
Asked how non-showbiz fiancé Nonrev Daquina is as a partner in parenting and in her life in general, Angeline said he calms her down. “Si Non, after nanganak parang naging topakin ako (laughs). Maybe hormonal imbalance? And especially na ‘pag naisasabay sa trabaho siempre. So, siya ang laging andyan naka-alalay sa akin, pag uminit ang ulo ko. (He is always there to support me. When I get cranky, he calms me down.)”
Source: philstar.com
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