Motherhood!!

My blog page normally talks about my experiences and my perception about things with some exaggeration where required to spice up the reading experience. Well, these days my life is travelling in a totally different direction from what it was. Anand, a friend asked me the other day as to why I haven't posted in a long time.. I asked him what to blog on and he said, well, you are a mother now.. Why don't u blog about it? It occurred to me as a brilliant idea and here it goes.. 

As I read on one of the pages on the net, there is no book in the world that could come close to fully explaining the enormity of a mothers job. The shift into motherhood is a complete physical, mental and above all an emotional transformation. Many of the life changes continue after the baby arrives. Career goals, financial planning, travel plans, social life, family life are a few to quote. 

Its really fun to look at babies and play with them. But its a totally different experience to raise a baby. Playing with the baby is only one aspect. Having baby as a part of your life is another! One has to fully understand the intricacy and the associated responsibility. Childhood is an important part of any person's life. It lays the foundation for ones character. It certainly is the whole responsibility of a mother to ensure that the child sufficiently enjoys this most joyful phase of its life and at the same time cultivate healthy living habits and travel in the direction of being a good human being.

It takes only a couple of minutes to yell at them and that haunts the brain for a long time. Thankfully, though they are not in a position to understand that whatever you do is for their good in a long term, they do forget your anger very soon and come running to you with a nice smile and hug you. That is when it pricks me real hard and makes me wonder whether I need to improve on my patience levels or the baby needs to improve on her obedience. And yes.. It is at this time that we need support from the rest of the family as well. Though the baby cannot, our family should definitely understand that we(mothers) are the last ones on earth who would want our kids to suffer.. if we do something to hurt them, we do it because we have to and not because we want to and  that we suffer many folds more than we hurt them!!