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Women are expected to be what society deems proper for a woman - here is a call out to accept a woman as she is!
Women are expected to be what society deems proper for a woman – here is a call out to accept a woman as she is!
With my flaws and with all the faults, With my eccentricities and with all the messy ways, With my unusual dreams and with endless figments of imaginations, With my nonchalance and unruffled attitude towards who try to judge,
Accept me with all this and so much more..
I would rather show you my vices and leave the virtues to unfold, No one minds the goodness, imperfections bother the world, Smudgy lines discomfort the society and gets talked about on every street, As I look at it, blemishes are just as much part of me,
Don’t walk into my life as a prince charming, Be real, be human and be the individual you are, And accept the same from me, Not all that you are charms me, not all that I am will please you,
Accept me for who I am, accept me with all good, bad and ugly.. Accept me with all this and so much more…
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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.