Bollywood movies are fun to watch yet many times notorious for setting stereotypes for good or bad women. “The good girl” is someone who upholds the Indian sanskaar. She is someone who works tirelessly for the family often putting her needs and wants on the back burner. The bad girl, on the other hand, is someone who lives life on her own terms, quite often defying societal norms with “strong opinions”.

For long we have associated self-worth with a job, title, how we look and/or material wealth. Essentially, I am curious as to whether success can be measured using non-monetary terms and measures.

“Don’t hold the baby too much, you’ll spoil him”, “Don’t rock him to sleep, he’ll get used to it”, “Don’t feed him, he’ll never learn to eat himself”. These were few of the things I read and heard. I was constantly worried that I was spoiling my first-born….

Motherhood, has an uncanny knack of resting the measure of self worth on a horde of things which are uncontrollable ( or we have very limited control over ).

Every time I pump, my mind runs rampant around the notion of what it truly means to do this exclusively, and now after more than 1000 hours of pumping time logged, I'm ready to share my experience in the hopes of helping others.

As if contending with and sorting through the many tips and opinions we inherit from our own mothers, mothers-in-law, grandmothers, grandmothers-in-law isn’t enough, we have to now put up with this Internet-in-Law as well!

Your birth plan. The document you so thoroughly researched and carefully crafted, it outlines everything necessary to give you and your bundle of joy the best possible start. But who would’ve thought to include a pandemic contingency plan?