| You don't need to look far to see why mothers seem | | | | God for these instincts. Just like the American poet |
| to be perpetually at logger heads with there | | | | (James Agee) puts it "A mother never realizes that |
| daughters-in-law. Every where you look many grown | | | | her children are no longer children". Even when they |
| men and women still seek guidance on a host of | | | | are grown old she believes that they remain her little |
| issues from there mothers. The same applies to | | | | children. |
| sons-in-law who tend to be in a state of permanent | | | | Listen to this Irish saying "A man loves his sweetheart |
| war with their mothers-in-law believing that their wives | | | | the most; his wife the best, but his mother the longest" |
| rely too much on their mothers' counsel. Weather True | | | | My friend told me five years ago it's his mothers' |
| or False, the fact remains that motherhood is forever | | | | instincts that saved him from certain death when he |
| from the moment when the doctor pronounces that | | | | got a bout of pneumonia. He had a piercing pain in his |
| you are pregnant. | | | | chest, which he would stoically endure even as it |
| From when a mother knows she is expecting a baby, | | | | looked very serious. One reason he resisting going to |
| the maternal instinct right away triggers a protective | | | | hospital was he had emptied his pocket at the |
| instinct that tries to ensure no harm befalls the baby. | | | | beginning of the school term. And he thought the pain |
| Even that weird occurrence, which sometimes is an | | | | would eventually go away. But his mother who is also |
| overwhelming craving for certain foods or non-foods | | | | a grand mother had not retired from parenting arena. |
| while pregnant, is the body's' way of saying that | | | | She said this was not a laughing matter and that she |
| certain minerals are missing from the system and you | | | | was not going to the village until my friend saw a |
| need them to ensure the baby gets optimum growth in | | | | doctor. And with that she fished from her large purse |
| the womb. My wife and I being first time mother and | | | | Ksh 3,000. To my friends surprise the doctor told him |
| father are leaving nothing to chance to ensure the | | | | he had pneumonia. Every mother has a sixth sense |
| best for the unborn baby. My wife will always flinch | | | | that's impossible to argue with. |
| whenever anyone or thing move very close to her. | | | | A priest tickled his congregation when he talked of this |
| She is not alone many mother invest a lot to their | | | | mothers' unconditional love. He spoke of the obligation |
| unborn babies, a true testimony of a mothers' love to | | | | to congratulate the new mother, there is really no |
| her child that is independent to the child's physical | | | | comeliness in the infant to talk about when she cannot |
| appearance. As much as some parents lock up their | | | | honestly exclaim "What a beautiful boy" then simply |
| children because of physical deformities and the | | | | says "What a baby." |
| stigma societies attach to these abnormalities. But | | | | Let me conclude with this gem "Child bearing myth |
| most mothers love their babies unconditionally. This | | | | number 1: Labor ends when the baby is born. |
| ensures the survival of infants to adulthood, thanks to | | | | |