Mom and Hana

Mom and Hana Unfiltered stories of motherhood & life 🌸
Millennial mom sharing our NICU journey, breastfeeding struggles, and the honest reality of motherhood. NICU. The NICU.

A safe space for mothers to feel seen, supported and never alone. I'm Alisha, a mom from Guwahati who built a life in Mumbai and became a mother at 37. In 2024, my daughter Hana was born. High risk pregnancy. Seven days before I could hold her. And then more hard chapters I didn't expect. I lost my older brother when I was four. My father to Covid in 2021, after eleven years of caring for him. I w

as married in 2010 and Hana came fourteen years later. This page is about all of it. The grief. The rebuilding. The getting back. Because small miracles happen all the time. And I believe in telling the truth about what it takes to find them. If you're a NICU mama, a grieving daughter, a high risk pregnancy warrior, or just someone trying to get back — you're in the right place. 🤍

Born in Guwahati, Assam. Moved to Mumbai, the city of dreams, on my own terms.No job offered what I was worth, so I crea...
30/04/2026

Born in Guwahati, Assam. Moved to Mumbai, the city of dreams, on my own terms.

No job offered what I was worth, so I created my own path. I made friends that became family. I built something from nothing in a city that doesn't slow down for anyone.

That move, that brave, terrifying decision made me who I am.

And who I am became Hana's mother.

Have you ever moved somewhere new to find yourself? Tell me below 👇🏼



[Mumbai life · Guwahati to Mumbai · Indian woman building her life · city of dreams · moving cities India]

23/04/2026

I want to talk about something nobody talks about honestly.
Bleeding during pregnancy.
I was three months pregnant when it happened. I was thirty-five. High risk. And I thought, I cannot survive another loss.
And then they found her heartbeat.
Small. Steady. Stubborn.
She was still there.
But the fear didn't go away after that day. It came home with me. It was there at every scan. High risk pregnancy is not just a physical experience — it lives in your chest. It changes how you breathe. It makes you feel like your own body is both the danger and the only protection your baby has.
Nobody talks about that honestly. They say "congratulations" and "take it easy" and "stay positive." They don't say — it is okay to be terrified. It is okay to sit in that waiting room and feel like the walls are closing in. It is okay to cry in the car on the way home from a scan that went fine because the relief is so physical it has to go somewhere.
Hana was born in 2024. She went straight to the NICU. And on day seven, they finally placed her on my chest.
If you are in a high risk pregnancy right now — or if you have ever bled and been terrified and held your breath until they found the heartbeat — this is for you.
You don't have to be brave. You just have to keep showing up.
Save this for a mama who needs it today. And tell me in the comments — did you have a scary pregnancy? You don't have to share details. Just drop a heart so I know you're here. ❤️

For every millennial who grew up watching MTV Most Wanted, this one is for you.I was a girl in Guwahati in the early 200...
21/04/2026

For every millennial who grew up watching MTV Most Wanted, this one is for you.
I was a girl in Guwahati in the early 2000s. No internet. No social media. Just a television, a notebook and a complete obsession with MTV.
I wrote Shenaz Treasurywala a letter. Spent so much time on it. Posted it all the way to Mumbai because that was how you reached your favourite people back then. 💕
And then one day, this arrived.
Official MTV India letterhead. A Polaroid photograph of Shenaz herself holding my letter. Signed.
"Your letter was very impressive and I could not help but select it as the letter of the day."
"I love your letters. Please do keep writing."

I have kept this letter for over twenty years. Through moving to Mumbai. Through becoming a wife, a caregiver, a mother to Hana. Through every hard chapter this city put me through.
Some things you hold onto because they remind you of who you always were.
I was always someone who put everything into her words.
Shenaz Treasury thank you for seeing that in a girl from Guwahati. 🫶🏼
Tag every millennial who remembers this era. Let's make this reach her. 🥹❤️

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