motherhood comes with many lessons and challenges it can be mentally and physically exhausting to clock in more hours learn to multitask between home and work commitments disturb your sleep cycle and embrace the new role with a grin on mothers day musician and new mom jankee parekh who embraced motherhood during the pandemic told us how she balances her career with motherhood how she takes time out for herself and does not fall victim to mom burnoutthe dichotomy in the life of a working mother continues to be an everyday struggle between prioritising children and her career how do you lean sideways put the career aside for a bit and make room for a flexible worklife balance what have been the challenges of balancing motherhood and your careersince sufis birth my travel and gigs have taken a backseat it was a conscious decision that we took as a family to make sure that at least one of the two parents was with sufi at all times with nakuuls mehta hectic shoot schedule its hard for him to spend as much time with sufi now as he did a year back so i have decided to dedicate all my time to sufi and its been the best time of my life watching him achieve every single milestone and not miss a single moment just being with him has made me grow manifoldbut now that sufi is 15 months old and a bit more independent i am already in the process of getting back on stage with my band jankee friends with newfound energy and vigour how did you are you manage time for yourself amid parenting duties the staying up late diaper duties etcmy schedule revolves around sufis wakeup time playtime mealtime school time and sleep time i try and find some pockets in the day where i do my own thing my riyaaz workout meditation reading social media campaign shoots music rehearsals and planning etc also i am blessed with excellent domestic help at home whom i trust completely and they make my life much easier in february 2021 sufi got covid youd shared some heart wrenching posts on social media about it how did you cope with the emotionally harrowing experiencei have faced many serious challenges with my health in the past but sufis tryst with covid was by far the most challenging week of our lives as a parent watching your child suffer is the most painful feeling ever emotionally i was not at my best but i feel that when you are put in that situation you automatically find the strength to face it and come out of it sufi was in my arms for five days while we were in the icu and as hard as it was to manage him singlehandedly i was still very very lucky that i could physically be there with my baby i think it was even more difficult for nakuul who couldnt come even be there with us