Motherhood can be a very rewarding experience. However, many mothers only look at their sagging or shrunken breasts and protruding stomachs after giving birth. Many mothers work to exercise and diet but sometimes the added effort does not work. Often women will turn to plastic surgery to correct and enhance their breasts.
After childbirth, many mothers [...]

The transition to motherhood is a profound step in a woman’s life. Becoming a mother is a life-changing experience and motherhood is a lifelong role. Although motherhood is universal in many aspects, the transition into it is very individualized. Our past childhood relationships with our mothers, our fathers and the overall connection we experienced in [...]

For the mother of a new baby, blogging is likely to be
the last thing on her mind. Taking care of an infant is an
almost incredible amount of work, and between
changing diapers and putting the final touches on the
nursery, it seems unrealistic to imagine that there would
be time left over for any mother to blog. However, [...]

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 [...]

Blogging with a new baby sounds a little nuts and is likely to be the last thing on your mind but it may just be the relief valve you need.
I put mothers on a very high pedestal. Even though I am a father and a grandfather, I really have no clue just how tough [...]

“I think they got together for physical reasons,” my friend says, discussing the marriage of a mutual acquaintance. “You know,” she whispers, cupping a hand around her mouth. “SEX.”Instinctively, I glance around. The children are halfway down the block, in happy pursuit of the ice cream truck. We are, for all intents and purposes, two [...]