Masaba: Social media is not a nice place for someone discovering motherhood
Masaba Gupta
embraced motherhood last year, and as she nurtures her 10-month-old daughter Matara with husband Satyadeep Misra, she hopes she's able to be like her mother,
Neena Gupta
. Masaba shares, 'I really hope I can be like my mother, but for that I'll have to get off social media.
It's not a nice place for somebody discovering motherhood, because there's too much happening there.
Sometimes you're misinformed and over-informed. I think you should just listen to the music, the trees, birds, and raise your child.'
Masaba spoke to us at the Philips Avent event which celebrated World Breastfeeding Week recently. Reflecting on her personal experience with breastfeeding, she told Mirror, 'When I began doing it, I realised how much it tires you and how exhausted and overwhelmed you can feel.
The joy actually sets in much later. I think I also realised that it's a big journey of self-discovery and how you feel about breastfeeding may not be the same as someone else.
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When asked whether breastfeeding altered her relationship with her body — physically and mentally, Masaba responded, 'It changes your relationship. I didn't give a damn about how I was looking at that time because I had a bigger role ahead of me and I wasn't putting pressure on myself to look like I used to. I was too busy to think about what I should do to go back to my previous self. So, I did workouts and yoga on the days that I wanted to, and did other things to feel better mentally.
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