Abstract: Based on various studies on motherhood, family evolution, and reproductive strategies in the Basque country, this paper examines how Basque women decide to become mothers, as well as how they develop and exercise their maternal role in the current context. It also looks at the ways their choices and practices are possibly influenced by the emergence of new forms of motherhood and fatherhood. It shows that, despite the dominant model of motherhood, these new forms of parenthood, which are increasingly more visible, accepted and acknowledged, have the capacity to become new examples for women who have to define their own motherhood.

Resumen: Basándose en varios estudios referidos a la maternidad, la evolución de la familia, y las estrategias reproductivas en el País Vasco (España), el artículo reflexiona sobre cómo las mujeres deciden ser madres en el contexto actual, sobre cómo ejercen la maternidad o desarrollan su rol maternal y el papel que juega en todo ello la emergencia de nuevos modelos de ser madres y padres que suponen las nuevas parentalidades. Frente al modelo hegemónico de maternidad, estas parentalidades que están obteniendo reconocimiento y visibilidad en la actualidad tienen la capacidad de convertirse en ejemplos para las mujeres a la hora de definir su propia maternidad.

Mijail Bajtin's arguments on ancient Greek novel and Marc Augé's proposal on memory and oblivion management in African rites stand as a proposal to promote the analysis on women's understanding of their own maternity within their vital trajectory. By elaborating a typology of biographical accounts, the text illustrates how memory of past and present times is represented from the landmark that constitutes maternity and, at the same time, how their own future is projected.

Los planteamientos de Mijail Bajtin en torno a la novela griega antigua y de Marc Augé sobre la gestión de memoria y olvido en los ritos africanos sirven de propuesta para promover el análisis del lugar que le otorgan a la maternidad en su trayectoria vital las mujeres que han sido madres. A partir de la elaboración de una tipología de narraciones biográficas el texto ilustra en qué forma la memoria del tiempo pasado y presente es representada desde el hito que constituye la maternidad y, simultáneamente, cómo es proyectado el futuro propio.

Resumo: Neste artigo, a evolução do meu trabalho de pesquisa torna-se uma estratégia narrativa para conhecer as múltiplas dimensões que a maternidade lésbica, como objeto de investigação, pode ter ao longo do tempo. Ao mesmo tempo, este tour pretende recapitular as mudanças que ocorreram na percepção da maternidade lésbica na Espanha nos últimos dez anos, passando da invisibilidade ao reconhecimento legal, contando hoje com uma vasta gama de possibilidades de acesso à parentalidade.

Abstract: In this article, the evolution of my own research work becomes a narrative strategy for gaining insight into the multiple dimensions that may have been acquired over time by lesbian motherhoods as a subject of research. At the same time, this account seeks to review the changes that have taken place over the last ten years in the way lesbian motherhood is perceived in Spain, going from invisibility to legal recognition to the current broad spectrum of possibilities for accessing parenthood.