Of nannies and babysitters
A woman in today’s world has multiple roles to fill—mother, daughter, wife, breadwinner, chief fire starter and chief fire extinguisher. We women need to be at the helm of things, directing the way our lives are going. But having a baby will momentarily hit the pause button on everything else in life but the baby. How, then, do you un-pause life as you knew it? How do you get back to work? How do you get back to socialising? How do you get some alone time? You find help. That’s how you do it.
If you’re in a joint family, consider yourself lucky. You’re going to have a mother-in-law, maybe a sister-in-law or cousins who will help you with the baby. But relying totally on
