March sees two very significant days in the feminine calendar as we celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8 and Bahraini Mother’s Day on March 21. You can add a third date for your diary if you’re from the UK, and make sure to spoil your mum on March 31, Mothering Sunday.
Over the following pages we’ve spoken to loads of inspirational women, many of them also mothers. This month’s Imtiaz For Her Hosts ladies are two creative females who talk about following their artistic dreams alongside their role as mums – both have found it challenging but they have wise words to offer.
Dr Natasa Nikolic knows more about motherhood than most. Seeing friends struggling with miscarriage and infertility issues, she decided to become an obstetrics and specialist and, over her 24-year career, has delivered thousands of babies.
The staff at the British School of Bahrain are seen as semi-parents by many of their pupils and the five members of the team we spoke to were eager to tell us just how special and enjoyable their role is.
For most of us, our mothers are the most important women in our lives, whether it be in encouraging us to believe we can achieve whatever we set our minds to or, simply, administering much-needed hugs when we’re having a bad day.
So, it seems particularly fitting that Mother’s Day and International Women’s Day should fall in the same month. It gives us the chance to celebrate both inspirational females – they could be colleagues, mentors, dynamic social activists or even celebs who are pushing us to be our best – and at the same time honour mothers, who often fill all these roles without even thinking about it!
