next time when you are going to listen to me o god! please tell me in advance
This God has a very crooked way of listening to my prayers!
When I got pregnant this time, just like the previous time, the first thing that the pregnancy hormones did to me was that they made me crave for ‘mummy ke hath ka khana’. But unlike last time I could not go and stay with her, because of Jiya’s schools and my need to be constantly monitored by the doctors!
So, craving remained a craving….well…for a long time!
Secondly, I used to crib that the most difficult task during pregnancy is making chapatis or paranthas. I could not stand the smell of them. Even making four chapatis was an uphill task for me. I will rush to the bathroom eight times in between!
Then cooking for myself was another bone of contention between us! Though I know that during this time eating good and healthy is so important, but if eating that ‘good and healthy’ requires someone who is already not well to spend time in the kitchen…..then….there is just one phrase….thank you very much! I am doing fine……I used to tell him that if you or jiya want something, let me know, I will manage, but when it comes to me I have become too lazy……even during jiya’s time I managed and survived on fruits only!
Even if sometimes on his pretense that he wants it, if I would make something, even the small process of making it will take the toll on me, and my appetite for that thing will be lost! Then I used to wonder ‘if someone else had made it for me….?!’
But, this time the God obliged, smiled and nodded!
And here I am! Confined to bed since the last three months and at least two months more to go for this complete bed rest (till my delivery) and then one month for the postpartum japa.
And so, here I am….. enjoying ‘mummy ke haath ka khana’ and that too ‘in bed’. No cooking in the kitchen!, no puking because of smell of the chapatti!
But god pleaaaaaassse I never asked for it this way!
Everyone’s life is disrupted. My parents, his parents, his sister’s family, jiya and then he himself, everyone!
I soooo wish that I had not wished for it…..
When I got pregnant this time, just like the previous time, the first thing that the pregnancy hormones did to me was that they made me crave for ‘mummy ke hath ka khana’. But unlike last time I could not go and stay with her, because of Jiya’s schools and my need to be constantly monitored by the doctors!
So, craving remained a craving….well…for a long time!
Secondly, I used to crib that the most difficult task during pregnancy is making chapatis or paranthas. I could not stand the smell of them. Even making four chapatis was an uphill task for me. I will rush to the bathroom eight times in between!
Then cooking for myself was another bone of contention between us! Though I know that during this time eating good and healthy is so important, but if eating that ‘good and healthy’ requires someone who is already not well to spend time in the kitchen…..then….there is just one phrase….thank you very much! I am doing fine……I used to tell him that if you or jiya want something, let me know, I will manage, but when it comes to me I have become too lazy……even during jiya’s time I managed and survived on fruits only!
Even if sometimes on his pretense that he wants it, if I would make something, even the small process of making it will take the toll on me, and my appetite for that thing will be lost! Then I used to wonder ‘if someone else had made it for me….?!’
But, this time the God obliged, smiled and nodded!
And here I am! Confined to bed since the last three months and at least two months more to go for this complete bed rest (till my delivery) and then one month for the postpartum japa.
And so, here I am….. enjoying ‘mummy ke haath ka khana’ and that too ‘in bed’. No cooking in the kitchen!, no puking because of smell of the chapatti!
But god pleaaaaaassse I never asked for it this way!
Everyone’s life is disrupted. My parents, his parents, his sister’s family, jiya and then he himself, everyone!
I soooo wish that I had not wished for it…..
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