“Don’t Hand Over Your Baby To A Nanny” Is Amrita Rao’s Advice For Moms As She Speaks Of Parenthood

From opening up about her pregnancy to asking fans to suggest names for her newborn, Amrita Rao has been quite candid about her journey towards parenthood. More recently, she also revealed how husband Anmol told her that ‘from cute she became hot after she had the baby’.

As per a report in HT, Amrita revealed how her life now revolves only around her son Veer. She says, “I’m up most of the night feeding my baby and it’s not like your shift ends and you get to sleep in the day, the day continues catering to every second of Veer. You have to put behind yourself and now you become your second priority. Motherhood is the toughest role I have played so far.”

Talking about all the small everyday changes, she explained, “We have a routine for Veer but many times he changes it. We have to revolve our daily ablutions around Veer now. I leave him in his pram to accompany Anmol during his workout while I get to grab some breakfast and vise-versa. Anmol and I have not yet stepped out just to spend some togetherness ever since… I’m not complaining though because we are really enjoying being the tripling.”

When asked about the one thing about motherhood that nobody prepared her for, she said, “I guess it’s the teething problems and the little first-hand learnings like how to manage a baby during feeding, burping, the colic phase, and so many things that your parents forget by the time you are a parent so no one can really prepare you for the journey. You have to step into parenthood to be born as a parent.”

Revealing her diet post-pregnancy, she said, “Being vegetarian, I have added a lot of cottage cheese to my diet. Also now I have milk twice a day which I would have otherwise never ever consumed. I also eat fruit daily and have loads of water. And yes I was only a rice eater but now I gorge on some amazing Jawari Bhakarees for dinner.”

She also opened up about her husband saying, “Anmol is a hands-on dad. I’m very impressed with him. He was excited about giving Veer a bath from day one. He stayed awake at intervals at night when I needed help. He also changes nappies and can pretty much handle Veer without me. I call him the Japa-Papa for Veer.”

When asked about the one idea about motherhood that is untrue, she stated, “That you could hand over your baby to a Japa Nanny or a Caretaker as soon as you got home from the hospital and things would be relatively smooth and hunky-dory.”

On the most difficult part of being a mother, she exclaimed, “That now you’re a “Mother forever.” Of course, the day and night duty in the initial months of the baby’s birth are also the toughest.”

On getting back in shape, she revealed, “I haven’t started working out yet. In fact even throughout my pregnancy I missed out on the workout bit because of the pandemic and then later my gynecologist advised me not to. Fortunately thanks to my genes I’m quite the same and even whilst pregnant in certain outfits you couldn’t tell I was carrying a baby. But I’m starting my yoga this month and I’m so looking forward to it.”

Finally, she concluded with a bit of advice she would like to give, “My advice to new moms would be don’t hand over your baby to a nanny as much as possible. I understand if you’re a working mom it’s extremely difficult but it’s important to spend time with the baby yourself, that’s the only way you will understand your child and keep talking to the baby as much as you can from the start.”

We wish Amrita all the love and strength for this new phase of her life. What do you think of her tell-all interview? Tell us!

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