Once you become a mother, your life changes. Nothing prepares you for the challenges it brings forth. Enough has been written and will be written about the joyous experience and the good fortune and blessings associated with being a mother. However, once you have become a mother, the lofty picture slowly recedes in background and the reality hits home soon. You move from being a member of a family to being responsible for one human life, being someone whom the new being is completely dependent upon for everything.

You then realize that motherhood is about more things than having a bundle of joy in your family. It is also about

– No “my time” – You can forget planning and saying, “I will…”. You no longer have control of your time or luxury of planning your movements. You are completely dependent on what the baby wants and demands. You thought motherhood was about taking care of a new life, but didn’t know it meant loosing your own independence so completely!

– Your sleep pattern – What you always took for granted, a sound sleep for 7- 9 hours becomes a luxury. You sleep when you are allowed, not when you want, and that is a pain!

– Aches and Pains – They seem to be all over your body. Head, neck, back, legs, thighs, waist, you name the area and you are aching. It is now a month since you delivered but it still does not go away.
Feeding your baby regularly – Breastfeeding is tricky. It may take time to figure out how to do it in right way, and it can get tiresome. If there are issues with the lactation, it can lead to several complications.

– When can I get my figure back? – You may not have been the “perfect 10” but you had a nice figure which your friends (and others ) admired. Now you can’t bear to look yourselves in the mirror and have no clue how you are going to go back to your earlier self.

– When do I get back to work – You were a working woman with a good career and a great income. You miss your work, you miss your office friends and your identity as a career woman. You were sure you could manage both when you thought about this. Now you want to know how to do this and can’t seem to get all the pieces together.

– I can’t eat whatever I want – You loved food. And ate what you wanted, when you wanted. Now you have to think of the baby feeding every time you have something, and you can’t go out anytime and get what you wanted, and you hate that!

In my experience as a mother of two wonderful daughters, and experience of working with 1000 + customers of Sangopan, I have enriching understanding of the not-so-joyous parts of your schedule if you are a new mother. I have listed some of them above as I know them, and there might be many more.
Watch this space for my successive blogs on each of these as I write one blog covering each of the above topics in coming weeks, though not necessarily in that order.
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