Motherhood

Someone has said it aptly “God can’t be with a person at all the time everywhere, so He made mother”. Today I saw an instance of how intensely and deeply a mother loves her child and how mothering can transcend all the bounds for the well being of children and this mother vouched for the first statement by giving her little daughter another life.

She was a far relative of mine and by relationship she was my aunty. Her 6 year old daughter was persistently ill for few months. On diagnosis it was found that her liver has actually stopped working which can’t be restored. So the only option was liver transplant. So her mother donated a part of her liver to her. With the improving medical facilities, thanks to the technological advancement in the medical field, it is possible to donate a part of ones liver which will regenerate to normal function gradually. But the risk of complications and death is always involved though the risk is less and the risk mainly is to the donor.

When I met her today, I talked to her for a while and wished to continue but didn’t get chance for it. Her daughter was playing with her toys sitting beside her, perhaps not even realizing what her mother did for it. But what is important and can be drawn from this is when that 6 year old child grows up and realizes what her mother did for her, that will only further reinforce her relationship with the mother. She can proudly say “ my mother is the best mother in the world”. Today I saw a mother won her child for eternal.

It is said that a mother who rears a child is greater than the birth mother. Perhaps the mother who gives another life to her child is the greatest of all.