The MotherHood
/I wrote this piece when I saw by best friend struggling with her pregnancy, and post delivery congnitive challenges. She was juggling with her ideantiy crisis, new born toddleer, her completely imbalanced work-life balance. It made me realise why is no one talking about this phase a woman goes through as well?
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Posted an exhausted New Mother
attached a photograph with a small smile
at 3 am while fighting to keep her eyes open
to entertain her fully awoken toddler.
No routine or perhaps life
exhausted mind and almost numb mind
lack of sleep for months in a row
unbalanced physiology and psychology with
severe hormonal fluctuations since conceiving,
she has been on the edge yet has centred
her universe around the infant.
Becoming a mother could be a
blessing but the belittling and overlooking
terrible changes a woman braves through,
must be, at least, acknowledged and talked about,
too, that, my dear, will then become the idea
of the ‘(w)hol(ly) motherhood’.
By Raeesabegam Usmani
From: India
Website: https://raeesausmani.in/