‘They arrived with twenty men’

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Dead tired and with leaking breasts receiving a large company: not everyone is waiting for it after giving birth. Let alone that maternity visit that is impossible to look away.

Janet (37), mother of Vish (15):

“I came home from the hospital at 11 o’clock in the morning. Half an hour later the visitors of twenty men arrived, who did not leave until five o’clock the next morning. That is quite normal within my Hindu community. Quite cozy, but I thought it was spicy, because I was dead tired.

“All that hustle and bustle around a birth is actually more from the previous generation”

I still want to have children, but if I ever give birth again, it will be a maternity hotel. All that fuss around a birth is actually more of the previous generation.”

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Ingeborg (31), mother of Pippa (8) and Lot (3):

“Eight years ago we still lived in a flat. The neighbor across the street came to congratulate us with his wife on the birth of Pippa. Nice couple in their own right, but he had a loud voice and I could almost see my baby cringe as he roared. Besides, they never left.

When Pippa was hungry, I told her to feed her. They made no move to leave, so I retired to our bedroom. As I nursed the baby, I cooed softly to her, “What a nasty voice that man has, doesn’t he? Mama hopes they leave soon, honey.’ Seconds later, my red-headed husband opened the door, hissing, ‘Ing, the baby monitor is on!’”

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Laetitia (25), mother of Fleur (2):

“We were the first in our circle of friends to have children. Mark, a friend of my husband’s, often came by on weekends and stayed for dinner and sleep. Now that I had just given birth, that didn’t seem like a good idea. Mark apparently does.

“Finally I falsely asked him not to rush for the 7:30 bus”

He came on Saturday at three o’clock and was still there at seven o’clock. My breasts were about to explode, the milk leaking through my shirt. Finally, I falsely asked if he shouldn’t hurry for the 7:30 bus. Fortunately that helped.”

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Socha (37), mother of Liz (7) and Eli (2):

“A mother from school managed to come to a maternity visit with a sick child; her son was coughing and sniffling. Corona or the flu? I didn’t like either one anyway. I had them look at Eli from a distance and then sent them away.”

This article can be found in Kek Mama 06-2022.

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