“It’s Not Been Easy...” - Maraji Opens up About Motherhood After Second Baby’s Delivery

Nigerian comedian and content creator Maraji is opening up during a new interview with News Central TV about how motherhood is treating her, especially with her second pregnancy; and also opening up about her decision to speak about her PCOS, and also if she'd advice other women to speak about the issue too. Here's what Maraji had to say.

Speaking about motherhood, especially after her second baby's delivery, Maraji opened up about the experience saying:

MARAJI: It's not been easy. It's not been, especially with my second. I thought since I had one already, I know what I'm to expect. I know how the sleepless nights work. But it came like this!

Cuz every child is different. The way one child handles life is very different from the way the other one handles, and it just really hit me like a storm. Like I had help, you know to help me with my child, but then, it was just still so hard. Like it was just so hard you know.

The baby is well fed, then like why are you crying? Why are you crying? Like what do I do? It felt like I've never done this before and it's just a lot because it feels like motherhood is something you should know as a woman.

But then you realize that you actually just learn on the job. It's not something that you are born with like "oh you're a woman now you should know how to be a mother," it's not easy at all. It's not easy.

Then speaking about her being open about her PCOS and if she encourages other women to also share too, Maraji said:

MARAJI: I think it's it's personal for the woman in question if she wants to share or not because we're in Nigeria. Like people will almost give you that name. Like they will literally attach it to you, so it just helps if you don't want to share and I think that PCOS is something that people just hear but they don't even understand what it is.

They don't know what it means and a lot of men don't even understand the term. There's not a lot of information about it. I remember watching somebody's video and she was talking about how she went to get her diagnosis, a lot of people in the comment section were like how can I get my diagnosis? Where do I go to? What do I ask for? Because you can go to the hospital and they will just tell you that where did you get your diagnosis? Because they are not going to do diagnosis for you.

It's going to take a really long way before we get to a place where there's a lot of education about it but I think as for sharing it I think that one is the personal choice because if we're in a place where people accept things and understand that this is not something you cost upon yourself, but this is just like a special occasion or special issue, then it'll be better.

But in Nigeria where people just see everything as spiritual and you should have prayed more, it's understandable that many people don't want to share about it and it's sad.

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