Special things you cannot forget about pregnant women

People often say that pregnancy and childbirth make a woman complete. Take the case of Rhea Judd, country singer, who believes that one child can change a woman’s life forever. She says, "I’m sure I would never have gotten off the road to success for a man, because all that I did I did for music. But when I gave birth do Sean, it changed my life completely-he had all my attention and I had no time for music."

So, how has Sean changed his mother’s attitude to life and music? Says Rhea, "He taught me that life is all about loving. Despite all the times he’s kept me up at night, I love him anyway. So, from him I’ve learnt that when you love someone, you love them despite all the trouble they bring with them."

For someone who was a wandering singer until marriage, has now become rooted to one spot, thanks to the pressures and demands of a new-born baby. New mothers learn these basic lessons of life from the new born who enters their lives so dramatically. They realize that life is not all about making money and owning expensive things but about creating a balance in life between one’s desires and a new born’s wants.

And are there any more lessons life teaches a mother of an infant? Yes, she also learns the beautiful lessons of self-acceptance and of humility. These are the gifts of mother’s love. And it is from these basic gifts that women are able to discover their priorities in life, their values and their sense of self that has been transformed by the love that has just entered their lives.

But all these changes can be wrought in a woman’s life, if she permits it. Think for a moment about a new born baby that’s just come into this world. It is so fresh and innocent, so vulnerable and so dependent on her that any mother’s first instinct is to love and protect it. And when this very baby responds to her love, it takes an iron mother to be able to resist its smile and gurgling.

The first ecstatic moment women experience in the course of motherhood goes all the way back to when she realizes she’s pregnant. She’s absolutely over the moon and can’t believe it. But the culmination of this feeling really hits home when she lies in the hospital theatre giving birth to her beautiful baby. As she pushes this little one out into the world, she feels relaxed and close to her baby. This is the first emotional bond a woman forges with her baby and is a moment every woman holds dear.

The next change comes when a mother takes her baby home and starts life with this new identity. She is the same person who went into hospital to deliver the baby, yet the woman who came out of there is somewhat different too. She realizes that the bond with her baby makes the difference and she focuses the rest of her life on rearing this child.

And in the course of child rearing-ranging from feeding the baby to changing nappies and more-all new mothers who were professionally successful, lose their identity and rediscover a new phase in their lives with a new designation-Mother. One that is so beautiful that she wouldn’t want to trade it for all the challenging opportunities that professional life has to offer.