Before a baby is born, a mother is born too.

Meera Shah has spent her entire life building certainty. A successful Indian professional living in Singapore, she believes in plans, timelines, logic, and control. But when two pink lines change everything, she begins a deeply personal journey into motherhood, identity, relationships, and self-discovery.

Far from the warmth of her family in India, Meera navigates pregnancy, loneliness, changing relationships, career ambitions, cultural traditions, and the overwhelming uncertainty of becoming a mother.

*The Mother Before the Baby* is a heartfelt novel about matrescence—the transformation a woman experiences as she becomes a mother. It is a story of love, vulnerability, courage, and finding yourself while becoming someone new.

For every woman standing at the edge of a new beginning: you are not alone. You are becoming.