Traditionally held notions of food, nutrition, energy and fertility are intricately related to one another in configuring a single continuum which anthropologists conceptualize as cultural development processes. However, modernity in all its myriad forms has brought about an abrupt change in the very mode of food production, food preparation and consumption patterns, that have more often adversely impacted the very reproductive performance of women, inflicting upon them pains and miseries which they had never encountered before. In this context, modern biomedicine as an agenda of modernity has been a major source of concern for both the academics and the common men alike. Medicalization as necessitated by the change in maternal food habits actually trickles down from a more macro level political-economic processes through which the agenda of modernity is accomplished. However, this development needs to be located within the broader discourse of modernity in order to have a better perspective on the challenges facing us today, especially in health sector. The major driving force behind medicalization has been the power and control exerted by the medical profession on the domains of maternal food and nutrition. The cultural-temporal sequencing of the various naturally occurring reproductive experiences of women residing in rural locales is therefore severely altered by the intervention of change in food habits, at more micro level. Under these circumstances it becomes imperative on our part to study the role played by the changing maternal food habits in situating the discourse between medicalization as an agenda of modernity and the indigenous perceptions of institutional healthcare. In fine, the author tries to focus more on the interaction between women and the medical personnel wherein the former are more dependent on the latter vis-à-vis food and nutrition, that are further accentuated by divergence of their respective perspectives and practice rather than their convergence.