Greetings family and how are we all doing with health 🥰. Happy to be joining in this week’s Thoughtful Thursday prompt.
We all know it as women how perfectly we are made to always be in charge of our family and this usually starts from when we are even young girls because I believe that God who created the universe knows how important our roles as women should be in our homes and society at large.
I use to wonder while growing up why should my mother pay so much attention to us her children, making sure everyone is okay before thinking of herself. And even my father who as an adult was also always being looked after especially for the purpose of being healthy since he works more to provide financially to the household.
And growing up into adulthood I began to understand and see the need of how women are created for the purpose because child bearing is a bond that is everlasting. The nine (9) months of pregnancy that women go through before child birth is the bond that can never be taken away between mother and child, including when girls grow into women and boys into men. Mothers love ❤️ is everlasting.
And why should mothers not be loved 🥰 or supported back especially during postpartum that many feels all kinds emotion from after birth stress either from the baby or other children that are still also tender in age? And sometimes because most husbands are not entitled to paternity leave as working class mothers do, they are not always available for full support their wives needs which makes tension and stress is even more which sometimes results to depression.
Am happy I came from a tradition where women are properly taken care of immediately after child birth. Its s a priority that before the child’s arrival, arrangements are already made of how my mother will cone and stay for at least the first three (3) months and sometimes can be extended to six months to enable the new born child and mother being taken care of. This will help relieve lots of stress for the family since they now have the mother of the woman in the house who helps to bath the baby and even cooks some certain traditional soups 🍲for her daughter to properly clean her womb.
In understanding, its a part of traditional because since the husband to the woman might be a business man or a worker, the woman’s mother is the best person needed mostly to be around because she has some experiences that the family needs. And whereby the woman’s mother is old or dead, the woman’s mother in-law being the man’s mother can come over. The aim being that the new mother and her baby needs to be taken care of for at least the first three (3) months.
My mother was always with me during child bearing which was indeed a great help. She even sometimes stays for mother than three months to help stay with the baby while I resume work back at the office , and the baby getting bigger to finally go to Creche . This us very important and helps mothers during postpartum to feel so relaxed and happy.
However, I see the best solution as couples seeking help from either their parents or relatives whom they feel can help them out during postpartum because its always s crucial time for both husband and wife to keep their family in peace of mind. Having arrangements like these made helps the woman feel loved 🥰 because pregnancy cones with lots of emotions which tend to stretch into postpartum. We should not allow what is supposed to bring us joy to bring us sadness
Mothers are made for love ❤️ and also filled with love ❤️. We deserve care at all times.
Thank you for reading friends 🥰💕❤️
Images are mine.
Wes & Grindan