PREGNANCY

I promised to dedicate my next post to pregnancy, so this is it! When you get married, especially in this part of the world, everyone expects to hear the cry of a baby in nine months time. In fact, that topic rules most of the prayers for the marriage. However, nobody exactly prepares you for what you are going to face in order for those prayers to be answered.

Being pregnant for the first time, you are introduced to a different world altogether. This new world is governed by endless set of laws. Some of which you will have to learn to obey such as avoiding some drugs,strenuous exercise etc. Others you are forced to obey and you can't help yourself such as annoying cravings for particular meals, and complete dislike for some other meals. From the terrible smell that plagues you, mettalic taste, morning sickness, night sickness for some others, nausea, loss of appetite, crazy appetite to eat for some others, among many symptoms in first trimester (as far as I am concerned, that is the craziest trimester for a first time mum) to the more stable second trimester and finally to the third trimester characterised by real tiredness even to breath. I haven't mentioned the weight gain which had people go from 'you've put on some weight', 'you look really healthy', 'you're glowing', in first trimester to "fine woman" in third trimester because of how really "fine" your face especially your nose have become.

One thing pregnancy taught me is: Motherhood is sacrifice and it begins the day you get pregnant. A lot of sacrifice goes into being and staying pregnant, it just keeps getting bigger at birth and the years that follow.
Throughout out the period of being pregnant, I saw my mum in a different light, and now I have learned to appreciate her more. Like our soldiers who we regard as heroes, because they sacrifice their comfort and many times their lives, and many make it out with battle scars, every mother is a hero!