moth.er.hood (muh-ther-hood) noun-
-the kinship relation between an offspring and the mother
What does it mean to be a mom? Motherhood is the essence of femininity. It includes the ability to nurture, to give tender care, sometimes to sacrifice or delay meeting our own needs or desires for the [...]

You won’t read this in the glossy ads of a pregnancy magazine, but motherhood often leaves women feeling burned out, disappointed at times, and confused about who they are anymore. As a writer on this topic, one of my major conclusions is that it’s not our reality that is necessarily so difficult, but rather the [...]

From Infringement to Liberation: Idu
Reading of Flora Nwapa’s Idu
Flora Nwapa, in her own words, conveys in a nutshell, her idea of the African woman at her best:
… The African woman is intelligent, beautiful, hardworking and everything an ideal woman should be … She has great independence of spirit.1
Efuru, her first novel marks a long-awaited departure [...]

Mothers, especially a new one, experience great joy when they cradle their newborn babies in their arms. No matter how painful the delivery process was and how tired she may be, a mother immediately yearns to bond with her baby and looks forward to the experience of motherhood.
Unfortunately, in many instances, the trip back from [...]

Why isn’t there a crash course in being a new mom, where they hand out a pamphlet that lays out the reality of new motherhood? Not another place to hear about how wonderful the baby is, how sleep is a memory after birth, but the truth of what motherhood does to women. Face it, it [...]