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The Editor's Pick - sharing my favourite articles on Women's Web this month
Continuing the ‘Best of the month’ picks we began from February, here are some of my favourite pieces from Women’s Web for this month. Enjoy reading them if you haven’t before, and if you have, revisit and drop the writers a note on what you think!
A Son Like Krishna: An Indian mother on her journey to accepting her son as gay
Feeding the Thai Addiction: Love Thai food but hesitant to cook it at home? Fear not! Our resident foodie, Somali gives you a primer on cooking Thai food in an Indian kitchen
Why is Tuberculosis a gender issue? : A good read on how tuberculosis impacts women in India
Women in the Shadow of the Gun: An interview with Binalakshmi Nepram, who works with female survivors of violence in Manipur
A Janam within a Janam: Can a woman find freedom in a prison?
She must be black, no?: Possibly our most popular post this month, blogger Sunil reflects on his own marriage and the Indian marriage market
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Many women have lost their lives to this darkness. It's high time we raise awareness, and make maternal mental health screening a part of the routine check ups.
Trigger Warning: This deals with severe postpartum depression, and may be triggering for survivors.
Motherhood is considered a beautiful blessing. Being able to create a new life is indeed beautiful and divine. We have seen in movies, advertisements, stories, everywhere… where motherhood is glorified and a mother is considered an epitome of tolerance and sacrifice.
But no one talks about the downside of it. No one talks about the emotional changes a woman experiences while giving birth and after it.
Calling a vaginal birth a 'normal' or 'natural' birth was probably appropriate years ago when Caesarian births were rare, in an emergency.
When I recently read a post on Facebook written by a woman who had a vaginal birth casually refer to her delivery as a natural one, it rankled.
For too long, we have internalized calling vaginal deliveries ‘normal’ or ‘natural’ deliveries as if any other way of childbirth is abnormal. What about only a vaginal birth is natural? Conversely, what about a Caesarian Section is not normal?
When we check on the health of the mother and baby post delivery, why do we enquire intrusively, what kind of delivery they had? “Was it a ‘normal’ delivery?” we ask.