Mother & Baby India

Here’s What Every First-Time Mother Can Expect

After I first realised that I was pregnant, the feeling of ecstasy is not something one can put down in words. We had are slightly hard time conceiving and so when the twin lines on the pregnancy test turned bright, we screamed out in joy loud enough for the neighbours to think that aliens had invaded our planet. I had a relatively quiet pregnancy in the first two trimesters and it was only in the third that our daughter, now 10 years old, began to be really active.

Come three o’clock in the morning and I would be woken up with a sucker punch from within my belly. Up she would be most of the night and that is when the food cravings kicked in for me. Besides Andhra meals during the day time (which my

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