It is entirely natural to want to look good after childbirth

After my daughter was born, it didn’t take me
long to get back into some sort of shape and back
into smart, fashionable clothes: only about a year
or so, maybe two. For some women, however, it’s
a point of pride that they do it as soon as possible.
A few weeks ago a woman walked into the café
where we were having Sunday breakfast. She
was fully made up, she had beautifully coloured
hair, and she was wearing really tight trousers,
atop which sat a cropped leather bomber-type
jacket with Mongolian fur collar. The length of
the jacket was evidently really important because
it showed her tummy, which was pretty
darn flat. Behind her trundled her husband carrying
their tiny baby, and what turned out to be
her sister-in-law.

The woman proceeded to undo her jacket,
but the Mongolian fur had caught in the zip. The
sister-in-law looked on in some discomfort – as
did we all, because we knew that a very carefully
chosen top lay underneath and I for one couldn’t
wait to see it. In the end the woman decided she
couldn’t take it off, and she sat down. Her baby
cried, but her leather jacket was so tight that it
was pushing her shoulder blades together
and she couldn’t make her hands meet. So
the husband hung on to the baby.
Then there was the friend who wore
Christian Louboutin skewer-thin heels
within hours of giving birth. She had
wanted to wear them during the birth
as she heard Posh had done – though this
vicious rumour has never been substantiated.
Seven days post-partum, she
showed me around her garden holding
her son, despite sinking three inches into
the earth with each step. That’s commitment
to motherhood, I thought.

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