Pranitha calls motherhood a ‘crazy yet surreal’ experience
Actor Pranitha Subhash announced last week that she had given birth to a girl, and she admits that the sense of becoming a mother hasn’t hit her yet, describing the experience as “crazy yet surreal”.
All through her pregnancy, the 29-year-old kept meeting expectant mothers and new mums to hear their birth stories as a prep for her delivery, but no amount of stories could have prepared her for the moment: “I met communities of pregnant women, where everyone used to share their birth stories, because I liked to know what the different possibilities were, how it all happened, because it is really scary. It got me really tense, especially when I got close to the delivery date.”
Talking about her own birth story, the Bhuj: The Pride of India (2021) actor says, “For me, it started in the evening when I was induced. By midnight, I started getting pain, which started becoming intense towards the morning, and became really intense between 7am to 10am… I really brought the roof down by screaming, shouting, and saying rubbish things. I was apologising to the doctors and nurses when I was screaming, saying, ‘It is so painful’. But they were so calm about it. It was absolutely crazy, and finally the baby came, and it was surreal.”
Subhash, who got married last year to businessman Nithin Raju, says she is excited and nervous about raising her daughter: “I get excited when I see other mums having fun with their kids, and nervous when I hear them cribbing.”
When it comes to her work, she plans to take it slow. “I want to balance my professional life with my personal life going forward. But right now, I have decided to take it slow because I want to give all my time to my daughter,” she concludes.