Agniveer Vayu or IAF Group Y 20 Jan 2023 Paper

Question Numbers: 17-20
Directions: Read the following passage and answer the given questions:
Bringing up the baby is now a science and fine art! Most of the maternal grandparents would agree with this statement. My mother lost fifteen kilos in six months when my son was born, and I gained that as much. Both ways it was because of the anxiety and shared responsibility. My female colleague's welcome retirement when their daughter is ready to deliver or had just delivered. They most often befriend young, experienced mothers and spend long counselling sessions with them collecting tips on how to tackle a crisis. It is a funny sight to see grey-haired women browsing “Bringing up Baby” books at the local bookstore. One tends to think about what they did with their own offspring. Ask them and pat comes to the reply “it was so easy then. They grew up on their own”. The mother may wear many hats at the same time. But to her or her parents, the mind-boggling thing for the first few years is diaper changes, circadian rhythm and continual feeding. At home social life is taboo. Phone calls give the cause for irritation, music becomes noise, friends and relatives become total strangers, the domestic help a spirit of mercy and the paediatrician a fairy godmother. Raising a kid is akin to guerilla warfare and if you hear a woman say that her baby ‘is beautiful and perfect and an angel’ all the time, then she is the grandma.