It all started with Oriol. He was born dead. This was in 2019, when the Arnau de Vilanova Hospital in Lleida only had a basic protocol for cases of neonatal death. The mother of that child, Ester Mora, tried to follow all the steps she was advised to take to come to terms with the loss. She and her partner held their son for a long time to say goodbye properly, to have a real image of what they loved so much and had not been able to have. “Ask for the time, privacy, and silence you need,” indicates this first protocol, drafted in 2016. Those parents from Lleida spent half an hour with him in the same hospital room and, when the hospital staff took Oriol away to manage his body, they continued their mourning as best they could.

I remember going shopping for clothes with my mother who had that habit of everything having to match, everything having to go together. There was that obsession with making sure any piece you bought matched the clothes you already had.This is no longer the case with your daughters. Do you have many arguments about clothes?

Every time someone enters, the door lets in a blast of cold air. The greeting is instantaneous, familiar. For a moment, it interrupts the noise of the coffee maker and the clinking of spoons. A few children's shouts, equally unpredictable, also break the silence. It's early enough for a Saturday.