Lalita Iyer

In 2018, she wrote a post for the "Happily Unmarried" awareness campaign on social media by the Majlis Legal Centre, describing an overview of her career, dating, marriage, and single motherhood.

[11] Shriya Mohan writes for The Hindustan Times that the book "feels like a gush of fresh air inside a vacuum of Indian books on pregnancy" and "Iyer tells you the inside stuff nobody is willing to reveal, shocking you, making you laugh and preparing you for the tough battles ahead — the pregnancy fellowship programme, the birth mutiny, work bitches, the myth of the hands-on-daddy, boob wars and the total loss of privacy, the sisterhood of over competitive mommies, and most important of all, how to keep your head above water amidst all this madness.

"[12] In ThePrint, Sabah K writes, "Setting off on a conversational tone, the book makes the reader see themselves through the life journey of the author (and society's constructs of "womanhood") – as she navigates periods, work, friendships, sex, marriage and motherhood", and "the chapters on friendships, finance, and sex make for good standalone reads, with their lucid and honest advice and pointers that hit home.

"[9] Neha Bhatt writes in Scroll.in, "Having struck out on her own decades ago, gone job-hopping every few years, dating both kinds of men – shampoos and conditioners (read the book to find out what that means!)

"[13] According to Julie Merin Varughese in The Hindu, "it seems a little counter-productive to hear a strong, modern woman like Iyer go on and on about breasts and waist and a** even though her point finally may be that she has made peace with her body issues.