Whose bump is it anyway?
26th June 2010
It came as something of a shock, the first time I got pregnant, to realise that the contents of my bump were suddenly very much other people’s business. From the first antenatal appointment, the expectant mother is deluged with advice: take folic acid, drink plenty of water and very little wine, say no to Stilton, sushi and swordfish. She is no longer a merrily autonomous individual, but a laboratory on legs.
Unfortunately, Britain has lost the mind-your-own-business tradition that is still fighting for life in the U.S., so they’re farther on the way to an Orwell-world than we are — although not as far as Europe, which is always falling into that pit and crawling out of it again.
June 30th, 2010 at 17:57
Whose bump is it? Apparently, it’s the government’s bump. Who knew?