My take on Motherhood Myths n Facts

Pregnancy brings a special glow to your face.Rubbish!I was pregnant like all other mothers for 9 months and i wasn't glowing in any of those nine months,i was bloating up real good though.I remember very clearly i had all kinds of pain on almost all of my joints,backaches,headaches,nausea,lots of pigmentation,mid night cramps and gas problems too.Talk about all the glowing i must have been doing.Ya right!

Mother knows best.Does she really?I am a mother and sometimes when my daughter decides to be at her worst  i simply don't know how to handle her.And most times how i react makes the situation even worse.There are some days when i really want to flee from my house purely out of frustration and i tell my daughter one of these days Amma is going to run away.yeah..i know what you are thinking worst thing to tell a child!Guilty as charged.

A Mother can never hate her children.Hmm now hate might be too strong a word,maybe i can use dislike instead.Wrong again!Mother can dislike her children and not once twice or thrice..but many times.In fact i disliked my child yesterday atleast 4 times.Here goes the list.While bathing her she got water all over me,later went on to tear up pieces of newspaper and put it into her water bottle,she somehow managed to get the windows key on my laptop loose(i have no idea how she did it) and she wanted to watch Chhota Bheem on Pogo  while i wanted to watch Sex and the City.With a more or less similar daily routine pretty tough to love them all the time.

Mothers are totally in love with motherhood.Of course we do love motherhood at times and then are most other times when we hate it.When my child is peacefully sleeping and has the angelic look all over her face,i do feel blessed to have my child night after night...but when i want to peacefully watch a movie or read a book and the same angel decides that its play time for amma and me,i wish i wasn't a mother and could just pretend she was someone else's.

Working mothers wish they could be SAHM.For those who are new to the acronym,its Stay at home mothers.I certainly like my pay cheques at the end of the month which i wouldn't have if i was a SAHM!I wont lie and say i love my job passionately and want my career etc..i am working simply because i like the money in it.I do like my weekends when i don't have to rush to work but personally if i didn't go out and meet some people and socialise and get dressed up even if its just to be at work,i wouldn't survive i think.Simply put, i am not good at be-at-home-full-time-mother.And to all stay at home mothers,i totally respect and think you guys are super mom's and remember there's no such things as a non working mother.Its a full time job!

Now here are some facts as well.

If people ever tell you pregnancy suits you.Trust me they are just lying and flattering you.Take a good look at the mirror.
All mothers yell at their kids. Its just something that comes naturally with motherhood.Almost all of them spank their kids too.Don't feel guilty about either.
We may point out our children's bad habits but we don't want anyone else doing the same about them.It's an exclusive right that comes to us with motherhood.
Most mothers will have a favourite child ,even if they say i love all my kids equally.I do think it's best that the mothers don't make it obvious though; for the kid's sake !

And lastly i had like to say that  your child can never have a better mother than you and we are probably doing a better job at it than we give ourselves credit for.This is a fact and not a myth.I am sticking to that :)

P.S: Wishing all my readers who are mothers a wonderful mother's day on May 13th.