When your help has left and you're in charge again, you should dress every Day, as soon as you get up, unless you're ill.

There are at least two times a day when a wife should look good and smell Good: at night when she goes to bed and in the morning before her husband goes to work. This isn't some kind of obsequiousness to the breadwinner. Your own ego is at stake, not his. When you have a baby you leave the mainstream of society, and it's very easy to look as pitiful as you sometimes feel which doesn't score points with anyone. That's why we think you should wear perfume and lipstick and even jewellery as you did at the office, and stockings in winter, too. Motherhood, like any other job, should be respected and first of all it should be respected by you.

Part of this respect is expressed in the speed with which you get a good figure again. There are those of us who have babies and then spend the rest of our lives waiting for the Rubens woman to come back in style. This, we have found, is unlikely.

In Greece, mothers still get their bodies into shape by binding their hips tightly and immediately for six weeks, using a length of linen, six feet long by a foot wide, which is supposed to push the organs back into place. In this country we do exercises, like the knee-chest, but be warned. Your figure won't return to normal without some help from you. Certainly if you have had more than one baby.

Although you've begun the most creative phase of your life, you often will feel overcome by its problems. The vibrancy of your job will sustain you, however as long as you count your blessings at least as often as you count your burdens.

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