New Delhi, Aug 31 - You could take a leaf out of their book. Several Indian women are taking to penning down their bumbling, sleepless yet overwhelming experience of becoming a mother or simply telling tales inspired by their own children!

Take the example of Shefali Tsabery, author of the book 'It's a Mom!', which was published two years ago but is still selling well.

Tsabery, a first-time mother and self-confessed toddler-survivor, said: 'Bringing your first born into the world actually means the birth of a whole new you.

'While everyone fusses over the little bundle, you are going to have to overcome the feeling of your life being taken over and turned on its head while your body has been transformed into something just as unrecognizable'.

'You'll have to learn to take pleasure in being a mother through the utter helplessness of the initial days, the extreme fatigue resulting from sleepless nights, and the overwhelming responsibility of shaping another life,' she said.

These experiences are so wide-ranged that they become reasons strong enough to write a book and advise others on how to handle a baby and oneself, she said. The book was published by Penguin.

'Bringing up Vasu: That First Year' by Parul Sharma is yet another tale of a young mother on how she and her husband coped with the new addition in the family.

From hitting the panic button every time she saw her baby fight a nasty nappy rash to literally going into a depression every time she weighed herself on the measuring scale, the book is an honest confession laced with humour.

Sujoyita Ghosh, author of 'The Hair Scare', however, decided to take a different route and wrote a children's book that was inspired by her nine-year-old son.

' 'The Hair Scare' is actually my son's story. One day when I was dressing him up from school I mentioned about a hair cut that he needed but had been refusing for two weeks. In a bid to make him listen to me, I told him that the cuckoo will build a nest on his head,' Ghosh told IANS.

'After he left for school, I called up the publisher and asked him if this would make for a children's story...and he asked me to go ahead with it. That's how the book happened - it's actually my son's story which I wrote in 15 minutes!' she said.