13 June 1958: For older mothers, a brief announcement to the assembled members of the Women’s Institute at three months fits the bill
Of all the euphemisms for pregnancy, the happiest by far is “She is interesting” because it is so utterly accurate. There are degrees, of course; babies very soon, very late, in multiples of more than two at a time, or in succession after four, all make their mothers more interesting than those which arrive singly at two-year intervals in (say) the first six years of marriage. But while no mother of two is likely to embark upon a third with the sole object of relieving tedium, it is agreeable, to say the least, to find oneself after eighteen years of marriage, interesting to the point of fascination.
Experience warns that the phase is brief: that it will be followed by a nightmare period of worry and weariness in which interest will be centred exclusively on the new arrival, while its now lumpish mother is “nowt a pound.”
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