Did anyone see the article in todays Guardian about confinement etc? It was really good and makes points that I have always felt strongly about - how we have lost the element of rest and respect and of being waited on hand and bloody foot after childbirth. My fil nearly fell out with my sil over this. He visited about a day after her second child was born, sat on the sofa for half an hour and then said "any chance of a cup of tea". But what makes it worse is that he doesn't understand why my sil was so upset. He thought he was being entirely reasonable and that she over-reacted. I think we should stop "bouncing back" and demand the right to retire to bed for a month. at least.
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