Chiamaka Ohadiugha
Hi Reader,
Hope you are doing well ☺️
I started writing because I needed to ease off and clear my head. This has been a wonderful experience for me personally, I am never in lack of what to write. Maybe when I started but currently, I could just be seated somewhere and boom, I’m inspired by something that just happened or I saw it first hand. It just clicks and I want to pen it down before it skips my mind. Lol.
I now recommend to people to write, get a journal or you can just write on your phone, helps a lot. Doesn’t have to be perfect!
Now let’s see what’s in store…..
My recent environment has really been an experience I will forever be grateful for. Seeing things I would not see online for myself; great!
Sometimes or most even, we find ourselves in that bracket of trying or already comparing ourselves to others or wishing to have something that they currently have forgetting that we are all different and as well have our unique experiences and how things turn out for us.
The woman’s body is amazing, I have read time and time again how incredible, yes I agree but seeing the real deal for myself has to be another form of incredible, infact I don’t know the exact word to use at this point. If you have been following the blog, you will notice that my current environment is in the hospital. In three weeks, I am overwhelmed with the different shapes, sizes, stature, and experiences.
In the course of three weeks, I have seen mothers who have given birth and are so agile the next day, I literally registered one and when I asked for her baby’s date of birth and it was the previous day, I was in awe 👀😳😳 I had to express myself and she laughed. She was holding her baby well, gotten the baby’s birth certificate and had just finished immunisation and then to my table to register. After I was done with her, she was going home!!!! Wow. Yes she still had a portroding stomach it was not so big, I remember it was her second child
However, I registered a mother too, who had just given birth the week she came for her baby’s birth certificate, it was her second child, but she looked so weak, pale and in so much pain, I felt for her. Prior to her coming to my table, I carefully watched as she made her way to the immunisation corner, from her stepping, one could see she was in pain, it showed in every step and I just sat down with my thoughts flying everywhere. This second mother now is still in the hospital, I have seen her severally and she still works in a way that says the pain is still there. And one will ask, but it’s like two-three weeks after birth, she should be able to walk free a little, well this is a reason to not think everyone is the same or that because the first mother went home the next day means it’s same for all moms.
I think it’s usually the first time moms that stay longer in the hospital beyond the minimal cut and all things new about child birth before eventually going home.
When a child is born, we are quick to drop all attention on the new born, giving less to the mother who is in-fact in so much discomfort and is on a journey to recovery. (I will write in this separately soon)
Like the two real examples above, days pass and I see more, in-fact as I write (26/10/2020), I just saw a heavily pregnant woman working towards my corner but she’s going for testing, the struggle to lift one leg before the other is so hard for her.
Like these women, some are agile even while pregnant, a few others are pale and struggling to keep going until the north and then another journey to healing.
My senior sister gave birth in July and I remember asking her is she had healed, she said no and I know I a little bit of inner interaction, working in a hospital now, I should just keep asking her is she’s fine. Phewww.
So dear reader, you see that on no instance should you compare yourself to another person because of what they are or what they have. Everyone have their own experience. Some women when pregnant have very big stomach and end up giving birth to a single child and then another some don’t have very big stomach and you hear that the woman had a set of twins 🤷🏽♀️
Some women when pregnant have swollen feet or face or look bigger body wise, some women look as tiny and as you can imagine, some of them look sick even. Some women have smooth pregnancy journeys while some don’t, some are practically nauseous through out while this is not the case for others. I could go on and on, but you get the point.
ChiamakaOhadiugha 