MY MOTHERLY INSTINCT
Few days back I was reading a book about the time parameters for a number of important events in the human body .This was amazing! Most text books don’t include such information. And the current scientific literature usually cites earlier studies and assumes that the reader is already intimately familiar with the back ground.
But as I dove deeper into this book, it became readily apparent that the time parameters for a number of important events in the human body would be hard to find. One of the important topics was about womb life. Here a program of development is carried out, that by all accounts, mimics the evolution of animal life itself .Various stages of mammalian development resembled like lizards, or small bird, or very young mammalian. One form melt gently and inexplicably into another ;each step always following the last ,no step missed ,no step skipped.
By the end of the first month of life, heart is just beginning to beat. By the time second month has ended, the embryo, floating now astronaut –like, in the warm, liquid sack of placenta, looks almost like human. The eyes have tiny eyelids. The head has jaws, the feet toes, the body a thin skin, and the cerebrum of the brain –the future site of intellect about a size of sesame seed.
During 3rd month of life, teeth, form under the gums, fingernails appear, kidneys release urine into the amniotic fluid, the nostrils, and the loops of intestine all is formed.
By the end of 4th month, it can swallow, it breaths weekly. By the end of 5th month its legs are moving around enough to be felt by its mother, its heartbeat can be heard with stethoscope .After that events accelerates ,The eyes suddenly opens, boy or a girl is defined, hands grasps unseen objects, the tongue moves, gut enzymes activate, lungs develop, glands enlarge, skin darkens, hormones flow. Then birth.
Reading about all these, my motherly instinct grew more intense. It felt like being in paradise. In spite of knowing about all the pain which a mother has to go through, in giving birth to a baby, but the pleasure of having baby, makes the pain worthless. Some times I wish I could carry the same kind of tiny creature inside my body .This is a feeling which no man is capable to understand. At certain age, at certain time women feel the need of certain things, no matter how difficult it is, how hard it is. It’s the nature and demand of body, which can not be suppressed.
When ever I see a pregnant woman, I start musing myself in the same situation one day. I see little Kids all around, in grocery stores, in Malls and feel like holding them, curdling them, kiss them. I could have done this but since this is not India, all these affection might be considered unpleasant or unacceptable. The only thing I do is, I smile and get so happy when that baby also smiles at me. It seems like it has been years, since I haven’t touched a baby after I left my home.
But as I dove deeper into this book, it became readily apparent that the time parameters for a number of important events in the human body would be hard to find. One of the important topics was about womb life. Here a program of development is carried out, that by all accounts, mimics the evolution of animal life itself .Various stages of mammalian development resembled like lizards, or small bird, or very young mammalian. One form melt gently and inexplicably into another ;each step always following the last ,no step missed ,no step skipped.
By the end of the first month of life, heart is just beginning to beat. By the time second month has ended, the embryo, floating now astronaut –like, in the warm, liquid sack of placenta, looks almost like human. The eyes have tiny eyelids. The head has jaws, the feet toes, the body a thin skin, and the cerebrum of the brain –the future site of intellect about a size of sesame seed.
During 3rd month of life, teeth, form under the gums, fingernails appear, kidneys release urine into the amniotic fluid, the nostrils, and the loops of intestine all is formed.
By the end of 4th month, it can swallow, it breaths weekly. By the end of 5th month its legs are moving around enough to be felt by its mother, its heartbeat can be heard with stethoscope .After that events accelerates ,The eyes suddenly opens, boy or a girl is defined, hands grasps unseen objects, the tongue moves, gut enzymes activate, lungs develop, glands enlarge, skin darkens, hormones flow. Then birth.
Reading about all these, my motherly instinct grew more intense. It felt like being in paradise. In spite of knowing about all the pain which a mother has to go through, in giving birth to a baby, but the pleasure of having baby, makes the pain worthless. Some times I wish I could carry the same kind of tiny creature inside my body .This is a feeling which no man is capable to understand. At certain age, at certain time women feel the need of certain things, no matter how difficult it is, how hard it is. It’s the nature and demand of body, which can not be suppressed.
When ever I see a pregnant woman, I start musing myself in the same situation one day. I see little Kids all around, in grocery stores, in Malls and feel like holding them, curdling them, kiss them. I could have done this but since this is not India, all these affection might be considered unpleasant or unacceptable. The only thing I do is, I smile and get so happy when that baby also smiles at me. It seems like it has been years, since I haven’t touched a baby after I left my home.
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