“You’re always going to wonder if you’re doing things wrong, but that’s what it means to be a mom, to care so much about someone else that you just want to be as perfect as possible.” —Naya Rivera
When you hear for the first time, the first feeble heartbeat of the growing fetus inside of you, you realize that you are getting ready for a moment of a lifetime. From displaced emotions to crazy cravings to feeling complete and an acquired inability to forgive yourself whenever you are moments late to feed your child, yes! the struggle is real!
Heartbeat by Monali Kakoty is a defining literature in this genre as the book encapsulates a testimony of her own, of being a mother with the struggles of motherhood. She is aptly able to connect her emotions, carefully segregated into the three trimesters and bring out the essence of motherhood with its rocks and rock stars!
The Author also have dwelt deep into the relationship fathers nurture with the child from the very beginning, the comfort, the closure both seeks within each other while raising the child.
“Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.” —Gail Tsukiyama
The Heartbeat shares a beautiful preface of how motherhood grows on you, how your child’s first mumble, those first steps, the first suckle steadily cements your relationship with your child.
No mother is perfect, but every mother is so unique. The Heartbeat by Monali Kakoty celebrates this uniqueness and cherishes it with the author’s own experiences intended to share with mothers, mothers to be the beauty of motherhood, for life, with love.
A Review by Nang Monroe Gogoi Phukan
