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Breastfeeding-My maternal struggle.

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Hello readers. It's been awhile since I posted about my experience on motherhood, with you all. Before I start, I would like to thank all my readers who have appreciated my blog and motivated me. Motherhood is surely not as easy as it sounds. When Tira was born, I wished she came along with a user manual. Every one expected me to be the perfect mother-a mother who knew everything. Having lived around with people with similar attitude, made me believe that I should indeed be that perfect mother. Honestly it's just not possible to be perfect, especially when you are a first time mom.  Thinking back of the time when I was pregnant and the phase of breastfeeding, I would say the latter was much more difficult. Going into six hours of labour was easier compared to the troubles I had breastfeeding. A few mothers would agree with me, while some won't as it was smooth sailing for them. The reason for this nightmare, was the first experience I had with breastfeeding. It wa
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A World Of Reality With Shadows Of Superstition.

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We live in a fast paced society. People are so engrossed with their own day to day affairs and have their heads buried deep inside their mobile devices. Nobody is bothered about anything else besides themselves. When you take a step back into the ‘susegad’ villages of Goa, it's the complete opposite. Everyone wants to know, what is cooking in your kitchen. Surely many of us have experienced this scenario in the rural parts of India, joint families or traditional oriented families. When you come of age, their very first question to you is, “when are you getting married?". Once you are married, the question that follows, “When do we get the good news?". Well I myself couldn't escape both these questions.  Now that I was married and going to have our first baby, all eyes were on us. My holiday ended with our little bun in the oven. Although the pregnancy was confirmed with the aid of a home test kit, we were still skeptical. We scheduled an appointment for our first
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The Taste of Motherhood

I always wanted to be a mother. The thought of someone hugging on to me,  someone calling me 'mama' always excited me. My husband and I had to wait for 4 years until the arrival of our little bundle of joy.   When I got pregnant, I never thought of all the sacrifices I would have to make. My pregnancy was not as smooth as I thought it would be. Low lying placenta at 4th month had me bedridden for nearly 2 months. During my 34th week of pregnancy, my cervical was dilated and I was in early labour. However my doctor thought it was best we delayed the labour for a couple of weeks for the betterment and safety of my baby and me. And so I was advised bed rest for another couple of weeks. My little angel was born on the 12th November 2018 after 5 hours of labour. I feel blessed to have a short labour and a normal delivery. We named out little bundle of joy 'Tira' which means glimmer of light. With the delivery came all sorts of other problems. I went through post pregnancy de
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