Bringing Up Vasu That First Year

First-time mom Mira steps out of the hospital with her baby son, aglow with confidence that her aspirations Supermom-dom will be fulfilled. After all, she’s attended all the pre-natal sessions, armed herself with postnatal planning, read all the books, and – most crucially – has the benefit of advice from expert Yummy Mummy Rhea. Mira realizes quickly, though, that the road to being a model mummy is not that smooth: her baby seems to think sleep is overrated, her boss has decided to show her the door, her pregnancy fat is staying steadfastly on, and – having threatened to beat up the one woman who could get her son into the coveted playschool Teddy Footprints – plans for her first-born are already going awry. With her husband Anand, the one feeble voice of sanity in her life, Mira has to navigate between a colicky baby, finding the perfect maid, postnatal depression, freelance work, demanding fitness instructors, and friends who careen between inappropriate lovers and alcohol. Will she ever gain entry into the kingdom of chick moms? Will she ever be able to successfully juggle a baby and work? And will she ever shed those extra twenty kilos? A funny yet tender peek into the pleasures and pitfalls of becoming a first-time mother, Bringing Up Vasu is true coming-of-age read.