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AIBU?

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to feel a bit sorry for Kate Middleton?

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RavioliOnToast · 02/05/2015 19:56

less than 12 hours after giving birth, she's sent home from hospital, which is totally normal, but within the time frame of giving birth and leaving the hospital, she's quite obviously had a team of stylists giving her a wash and blow, doing her makeup, getting her a lovely dress to wear etc etc. to then be papped by God knows how many photographers.

aibu to think that even though she's royal and all she should have been able to slip out the back in her converse and sweat pants and mellowed in post labour soreness.

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WorraLiberty · 02/05/2015 23:27

I don't feel sorry for her. Just happy for them both.

"aibu to think that even though she's royal and all she should have been able to slip out the back in her converse and sweat pants and mellowed in post labour soreness."

I think you're projecting there a little bit.

I've got 3 kids and never really had much post labour soreness. I, like many other women left the hospital and walked to the car (can't remember what I wore, but it wasn't sweat pants).

I don't see what's odd about that and I would have quite liked to have had my hair done, for the pics we took in the hospital.

Fair enough I would have hated the paparazzi to be waiting outside but if they were, I would have been grand about it because my hair/make-up and clothes would have been sorted for me

beezlebop · 02/05/2015 23:29

No, I feel very sorry for her.

baies1 · 02/05/2015 23:30

'Work reasonably hard.'

Have you seen the official engagements calendar?!

StrawberryTallCake · 02/05/2015 23:41

Why the need to be utterly horrible about the woman on the day she gives birth? They are married and I'm pretty sure the future King decided who he wants to marry himself - I'm sure he has a brain cell or two.

Speculation about who he might or might not have fancied 10 years ago on the day he and his wife welcome their second child is fucking ridiculous. Really though, if you wrote that how would you feel if someone did the same to you? I'm sure your partner used to fancy someone else.

squoosh · 02/05/2015 23:42

I did feel a bit sorry for the couple who came out the door before Kate and William. Everyone must have got themselves in a tizz expecting the royals and then they probably walked out to a mixture of camera flashes and disappointed 'oh, you're not them's.

happybubblebrain · 02/05/2015 23:56

Squoosh - ha ha ha

I feel a little bit sorry for the people that still think we should have a royal family. Bless.

olgaga · 02/05/2015 23:59

I thought she looked happy, relaxed and relieved.

Yes she looked a bit more polished than most of us probably did - but we didn't have the world's press waiting.

That's what's expected of the Royal Family,, and she looks like she takes it all in her stride.

Ok we aren't all so privileged and most of us end up with crappy snaps in our jogging bottoms, stained t shirts and (in my case) badly needing a haircut. But so what? Good for her!

run2 · 03/05/2015 00:21

No. I feel bad for one particular news reporter's baby. The reporter who referenced KM's baby as being "more important" than her own expected and imminent one. That was a depressing piece of journalism.

run2 · 03/05/2015 00:22

In fact i think "much more important" were her words.

LowryFan · 03/05/2015 00:32

I think the pros and cons of Kate's life are just so different to an ordinary life. I wouldn't want her life. Though if I ever win the lottery I'll never wash my own hair again. Stylists all the way

NormaStits · 03/05/2015 09:40

As she turned and said something to William, I imagined it to be 'can we go back in now, I'm going to leak through any minute'.

What got me more than the hair & make up (which you'd just have to have if you knew your post labour face was going to be beamed around the world) was the white dress - white! Didn't she read the advice online to take dark things in your hospital bag to avoid stains? And the high heels. I imagined her kicking them off the second the doors shut and waddling back down the corridor barefoot.

123Jump · 03/05/2015 09:44

Am I the only non Royal one who left hospital with full make up, had my hair done before I went in,so still good, and had brought something not made to fit a baby elephant for the way home?
I mean, i wasn't quite Kate, but I love looking 'groomed', and it is much easier to do without a nearly 11lb baby inside you.

FeijoaSundae · 03/05/2015 09:48

YABU. She enjoys dressing up. Lots of people do.

I mean, it's probably not the easiest of rides facing the paparazzi in the immediate aftermath of giving birth, but not everyone wants to flob about in trackies and ugg boots.

And in any case, she does a brief appearance, and then gets to go home and have a much easier ride of it than the rest of us mere mortals.

HopOnTheMonnerBus · 03/05/2015 09:50

I didn't quite look like kate, but I was bouncing after having both of mine. I would have been very happy to walk out to the world's media and show off my gorgeous baby.
I'm pretty sure I did my hair and makeup at one point too just because I was bored as DS1 barely woke up.

SaucyJack · 03/05/2015 09:57

No, I don't feel sorry for her. She actively pursued marrying in to a certain lifestyle, and she seems to be enjoying what she has. Good for her.

There are billions of people more deserving of pity than a happily married woman showing off her second healthy baby to the world.

I'm sure it would suit the feminist cause if she was the next Diana, but I don't think that's the case.

derxa · 03/05/2015 10:03

So what if she pursued William. She's a tough cookie like her mum. The point is she needs to be to survive in that family. Diana was naive and look how well that worked out for her.

Cornettoninja · 03/05/2015 10:06

I don't feel sorry for her, she comes across as happy enough for me not to be worrying about her distress at having a five minute photo op.

I'm sure if she hadn't felt up to it she would have took the opportunity to spend a night in hospital and delay it all till today or tomorrow when they were discharged. I don't think anyone would have begrudged the reasoning that she was recovering. Granted they would have had to do the media thing at some point but I have no doubt at all they dictate the timetable.

Regardless of the press obligations, she's a lucky woman with a very supportive family and access to further support if she requires it. Kate is hardly the next Diana is she?

William comes across as the one wary (understandably so) of the publicity, I can't say I've ever picked up on the same from Kate.

formerbabe · 03/05/2015 10:23

I'd quite happily put up with having my hair blow dried and standing for 2 minutes whilst having my photo taken, in return for multiple luxurious homes, lovely holidays, no money worries, a nanny and other staff on hand etc etc

Everyone's life has pros and cons.

So Kate had to get her hair done and put on a dress after giving birth. I had to go home and look after my newborn and toddler with no help from anyone and my oh had no paternity leave. Plenty of women around the world have it much much worse.

FirstWeTakeManhattan · 03/05/2015 10:29

She fought tooth and nail for years to get into this very position. Kate Middleton is definitely hard as nails tough enough to handle a post-birth blow dry.

Aussiemum78 · 03/05/2015 10:50

I did notice her husband took her hand as she walked down the steps. Probably I'm not the only female who thought "yep, stairs after baby make you feel like your vagina is going to break". I was only shuffling for about a week....

You'd have to leave hospital before the hormones kick in and adrenaline leaves....can you imagine standing there bawling your eyes out, snot dripping, in that third day puddle? "oh god I've got a baby forever, I want my Mum, I hate this fucking dress!" I was hilarious, probably looked like that YouTube guy crying about Britney spears.

Aussiemum78 · 03/05/2015 10:53

And if I feel sorry for anyone, it's the 12 year olds in forced marriages giving birth with no medical care.....

Kate had a choice, she easily could have given birth at home and had doctors on hand for it. For whatever reason, they did it the way that was best for them.

Floundering · 03/05/2015 11:06

The photos were around the world in minutes & on front covers for next few weeks ,& any other royal event for years to come. Of course she'd have her hairdresser pop in before, she does her own make up & probably went for that lovely dress to hedge her bets re colour. Bloody faff when she wanted to get home & into some pj's I bet so YANBU to feel sorry on that level.

However she knows thats the trade off for getting the press onside to leave them alone for these precious first few days, so they can hole up in Norfolk in their new place. Good luck to them.

SandInMySandwiches · 03/05/2015 11:28

I'd have more respect for her if she walked out of hospital like John Wayne, hair scraped back and looking knackered. Because that is normal. I prefer normal.

Iliveinalighthousewiththeghost · 03/05/2015 11:59

Yabu.
She as others have said persued that life.
She hAs been graced with 2 adorable children.
She's had people styling and pampering her.
What a hard life.

fatlazymummy · 03/05/2015 12:21

Why would you feel sorry for her? I felt great after I had my babies (well, my 2nd and 3rd). I came home 3 hours afterwards, wearing the clothes I went in (normal pair of leggings and long shirt) when I had my 2nd. Even after my 3rd (home delivery) I got up, showered and dressed an hour later.
True, I would have hated the photographers, but then I wouldn't have married into the royal family either. Plus, I'm sure they were very nice to her.
There's a really weird idea on Mumsnet that it's obligatory not to get dressed or brush your hair or anything after you've had a baby. That's fine if you don't want to, but not everyone's the same.

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