MORE TO CHILD BIRTH THAN JUST SILLY COMMENTS & QUESTIONS.
As a society, I think the way we receive the news of child birth should go beyond these silly comments and questions.
1. Did she do CS or Natural birth?
2. Did she get a boy or girl?
3. She looks so fat after birth.
4. The baby is not cute.
5. The baby is fat, slim etc.
6. It’s a boy so hurry and add a girl and vice versa.
You know why? Because there’s more to giving birth than how we (society) expect a new mother to look after childbirth, her baby gender or how she delivered.
What we tend to forget is regardless these silly comments and questions, there’s a baby being brought into this world. Other relating matters are not for us to discuss or poke our noses into it.
I assume we are a people with compassion and so expect all of us before asking such silly questions about a new mom, at least stop to think about the fact that, the new mother and her child by the grace of Allah have been able to go through the several months of pregnancy safe and sound and baby delivered safe with 2 eyes, 1 nose, 1 head, 2 legs, 2 hands etc. and mother doing well so no point asking questions.
See, a lot of mothers go to the maternal wards and don’t return back home because they died during delivery.
Some return without their baby/ babies. Baby died during delivery.
Some baby/ babies return without their mothers. Mother died during delivery.
Some husbands and families only receive items that were packed to the hospital for delivery and not their wives and babies. Baby and Mama died during delivery.
Sigh! Sad reality!
Maternal death lives with us so if you and I and our families are fortunate enough not to experience such traumatic situation, can we kindly try not to inflict emotional/ verbal pain on others? And always remember the below definition is real so live and let surviving mothers and their babies to live.
“Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes."
Adizah Kuburah Braimah
The Muslim Woman Achiever
kuburahdiamonds@blogspot.com
1. Did she do CS or Natural birth?
2. Did she get a boy or girl?
3. She looks so fat after birth.
4. The baby is not cute.
5. The baby is fat, slim etc.
6. It’s a boy so hurry and add a girl and vice versa.
You know why? Because there’s more to giving birth than how we (society) expect a new mother to look after childbirth, her baby gender or how she delivered.
What we tend to forget is regardless these silly comments and questions, there’s a baby being brought into this world. Other relating matters are not for us to discuss or poke our noses into it.
I assume we are a people with compassion and so expect all of us before asking such silly questions about a new mom, at least stop to think about the fact that, the new mother and her child by the grace of Allah have been able to go through the several months of pregnancy safe and sound and baby delivered safe with 2 eyes, 1 nose, 1 head, 2 legs, 2 hands etc. and mother doing well so no point asking questions.
See, a lot of mothers go to the maternal wards and don’t return back home because they died during delivery.
Some return without their baby/ babies. Baby died during delivery.
Some baby/ babies return without their mothers. Mother died during delivery.
Some husbands and families only receive items that were packed to the hospital for delivery and not their wives and babies. Baby and Mama died during delivery.
Sigh! Sad reality!
Maternal death lives with us so if you and I and our families are fortunate enough not to experience such traumatic situation, can we kindly try not to inflict emotional/ verbal pain on others? And always remember the below definition is real so live and let surviving mothers and their babies to live.
“Maternal death or maternal mortality is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and site of the pregnancy, from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management but not from accidental or incidental causes."
Adizah Kuburah Braimah
The Muslim Woman Achiever
kuburahdiamonds@blogspot.com
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