A mother deserves it all

It’s a mother who cares about each and every member of the family. She is so involved with many emotional and physical problems of the family that she forgets about herself. Mothers are those who neglect their life in order make the members of their family right.

In order to aspire mothers to opt for a healthy lifestyle Hyderabad-based doctor and social entrepreneur, Dr Mani Pavitra has started the ‘Million Moms’ initiative.

Speaking of ‘Million Moms’, Dr Pavitra shares about the extraordinary challenges and programmes set up for mothers who have to start prioritising themselves.

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Tell us about ‘Million Moms’.
Women who become mothers generally complain about gaining weight after pregnancy. And out of concern, we show a lot of sympathy towards expecting mothers, by which they get overwhelmed and expect the same even after pregnancy, which changes their lifestyle.

Million Moms is an initiative to reach out a million mothers in Telangana, where the C-section rate is higher. Mothers who had a C-section cannot go back to work immediately and because of that, the fat in their body becomes stubborn. So we at Million Moms are trying to teach mothers to start doing #21-day challenge.

What is the #21-day challenge?
The #21-day challenge is for mothers to do something consistently both mentally and physically for 21 days. A mother is a counsellor in a family she does everything to make her loved ones happy. But we never share our happiness with her and only go to her when we are emotionally broken, which makes a mother carry emotional load of all the family members. We have built a community on Facebook, where all the mothers support and motivate each other to work and adopt a healthy lifestyle.

What is the objective of the #21-day challenge?
The main objective is to make a mother think about herself, her happiness and make herself her priority. We here are telling a mother to take charge of herself as she is the powerhouse of the family.

How is the response from the mothers?
It has been really great, we have reached out more than 8,000 mothers and they are all ready to do little things at home like skipping, walking, etc, which helps them to become healthy. We are overwhelmed by the response we are getting from mothers.

By: D Shreya Veronica