The act of childbirth has always been a community engagement. The rituals, practices, food habits, lifestyle of the pregnant women has been a social and collective responsibility mostly in an Indian society. During the Covid 19 Pandemic the collective was banned and thus for women going through the phase of carrying babies, delivery and postpartum became a solitary phenomenon. This paper intends to engage with those new mothers who experienced Motherhood during March 2020 till March 2021, the phase characterized by lockdowns and restrictions. This paper would explore the journey of these women who mostly stayed in nucleated families in the urban spaces of India and had to face the challenges of becoming a mother almost without the larger familial support system. This ethnographic study would help us understand the role of the larger family and kin in the process of reproductive period of a woman. The space of anthropological studies is continuously evolving , and thus this paper would give us a newer dimension to explore an area which is assumed to be a natural process, however having immense sociological and anthropological importance. Auto ethnography would also be one of my methods of study as personal experiences become collective when shared and understood in a larger socio-structural context.</strong></p>
