Pregnancy is followed by child-birth, which is accompanied by the next stage that is child- rearing. Initially it takes some adaptation for the new mother to tend to the new born and lactation as well imposes restrictions upon her, she has to change her sleep pattern and her daily routine as well at least for a while, this stage also demands adapting to by the mother. While instinctually a mother rejoices in bearing and rearing her child. To see her child well nurtured and nourished gives immense satisfaction to a mother. Though the biological changes that accompany motherhood affect a mother physically as well as psychologically, this aspect may also be considered as a form of the biological aspect, but it has greater impact on motherhood, and the mother-child relations, especially the mother – daughter relations that play a vital role in the understanding of maternal attitude. PSHYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT OF MOTHERHOOD …show more content…
Therefore the psychological aspect of motherhood is taken as one of the key factors in understanding maternal behaviour; the theorists so far have blamed this aspect of motherhood for serving the patriarchal design - the perpetration of gender-inequality. The vicious cycle that has gone on from mother to daughter and then from the daughter who now becomes a mother to her own daughter, for centuries, may be attributed to it. This aspect highlights the uniqueness of the mother-daughter bond. The psycho analyst and feminist, Nancy Chodorow, has explained maternal behaviour on psychological basis and asserted that the sociological aspects could be of secondary