AIBU to hope the Duchess of Cambridge...

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....asks someone to remove Kay Burley or at least lob a shoe at her head from her labour suite?

I could have done a photo shoot after my vaginal births no problem although would have needed the hairdresser and make up person to make me look half decent. After my c-sections, no way.

I think it's partly luck and partly really good healthcare, both antenatal and during the birth that means the royal ladies have good births.

My mate was similar to you, peach.

She tore, despite an episiotomy (her then partner told me privately that her nethers looked like roadkill, the unsympathetic fucker). She was desperate to get home from hospital and smoke a joint, so was up, dressed, had all her slap on and looked like she'd just come back from a nice holiday.

The next day when all the drugs wore off, it was a completely different matter. It was about a month before she could walk normally.

I saw someone say William has morphed from Diana into Charles very quickly and it’s so true, he has. He isn't ageing well at all.

She probably sits in bed and has a team do her hair and make up, puts on a nice outfit then jumps in the car and no doubt when they’re home she dives into her juicy couture.

She's pretty but I wouldn't say STUNNING

Obviously professional hair and makeup and expensive treatments must help

i prefer Harry myself, he has a baby face and looks like he needs a hug most of the time. William seems more aloof.

I’m disappointed to have come back from the school run and there’s not a shoe at Burley in sight 😂

Oh wait - maybe Kate should get some inflatable lips done. Lol
Think fillers is the norm, but why not, already got the hair extensions and veneers......and anything else money can buy. Don't want to sound mean but sick of all the BS about the royals.

Raffles so true I'd say they're literally pushing themselves out the door, telling themselves to hold themselves up and pasting on a smile, whatever privledged situation they're in I'd say it's horrific to stand out there facing cameras when your body is falling apart

I could've walked out 5 mins after birth, never mind 5 hours. After DD1 was borb upstairs, I carried her down to the living room at about 15min old. Yook her to the park for a walk at 12 hours old.

Delivered DT1 myself then walked out of room immediately, holding him, to find staff member.

@Rafflesway hahahahahahaha (can't do emoji things). I was in a High Dependency Unit following a natural birth. Had my vagina reconstructed etc. Had a massive allergic reaction to IV antibiotics. Spent 10 days in hospital. I couldn't stand up for the first five days, never mind swanning around in a nice dress for a photo opportunity.

It's 60 seconds of her life.

She has to walk through a door, down six steps, stand, smile, wave, get into the car and hibernate for six months.

Someone else will make sure her hair and makeup are perfect. She doesn't need to give any of that a second thought.

She has to sort her pad and pants like the rest of us and put the beautiful dress over her head - the dress that has been pressed and presented to her.

It's really not a big deal.

After that she gets to hide away in a palace for six months being waited on hand and foot.

It's fine.

Would love to know what you ladies who had natural deliveries think. Would you have been able to stroll outside, holding new baby, within about 5 hours of delivery?

Sometimes I can't even walk the day after a curry, so I doubt it.

I do find it quite funny that the media has mentioned about 1200 times that 8lb7oz is a big baby. My mum's were all over 9lb! Poor cow, I was 9lb13oz!

I worry about the high heels - if I recall Diana always wore flats for the hospital steps photo - as I always think if she became faint or caught her heel and then dropped the baby. 😱

Really, really wish they could just go home privately and let the first photos wait for a few days.

Give birth / lay an egg... Same thing kind of!

“I am honestly in awe of that woman
I couldn't ever be in awe of anyone in that family. But if Kate could see just how much a typical newly delivered mum does probably only days after giving birth she'd be seriously in awe of them.

Apparently a few other extremely rich/aristocratic families do fertility checks before they allow outsiders to marry in as well. )
Do have any evidence for that, bluebug?

Just little prick yeah but it's a sixty seconds that will be photographed and reproduced and seen by millions of people around the world forever more. I think it's horrific (as a woman - not bothered about royal bit) that she's expected to do it.

Do they also check the man?

Sorry Justalittleprick your nn was autocorrected there!

YANBU

I really wish Kate, and anyone in her situation, would come out in trackies and trainers and a pony tail (if she has to at all). After all they could be luxuriously nice trackies, she could have her make up done and look lovely, but still comfortable. I hate the thought of her getting into a silk dress and heels... so miserable and it's really not helpful to new mums in general to engineer that perfection for public view

Agree with this

After my son who was almost 10lbs I could have walked out the same day easily. I didn’t because he was born in total white out blizzard conditions and we barely made it to the hospital.

My landlord had clear the back road to our house with the plow on the front of his truck so we could get home.

I had to wait for the rest of the roads to be cleared of about three feet of snow the next day! (in the US - Iowa at the time).

Well of course also I pretty much still looked six months pregnant and I don’t look fashionable even at my best.

With my daughter, who was smaller but a much harder labor I was walking like John Wayne and looked completely stoned the next day. I wasn’t of course just exhausted and freaked out (first baby).

I am definitely peasant material and not royalty.

Rafflesway
Would love to know what you ladies who had natural deliveries think. Would you have been able to stroll outside, holding new baby, within about 5 hours of delivery?

I would, although I had to stay in hospital for 24hours for DD the have observations due to a prelabour rupture of membranes, but I felt better within a few hours of birth than I had for the entire pregnancy!! Was out walking the dog with baby in a sling within an hour of being home from hospital

I stood outside talking to a neighbour for half an hour when we came out of hospital six hours after my third was born. It was the easiest birth of all four of mine and I only had a couple of stitches.

He was 8lb 7oz too.