 | | | | | | | مقتبس من "استغلي الفرصة: كيف تحصلين على أكثر من طفل في الشهور التسعة القادمة"
Kate Hodson |
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| | (أنا واهنة بما يكفي للحصول على الدعم المستمر من رجلي، وحملي ـ للمرة الثانية ـ من الأرجح كثيراً أن يجعلني أحصل على هذا الدعم. |
| | لذلك أيتها القارئة العزيزة، أنا أشجعك على تصميم دولاب ملابس أمومتك بعناية وحرص. أن تكوني أنيقة بلا مجهود وأنت حامل، فهذا شيء هام. ولكن أن تجعلي الحمل يبدو بلا مجهود، فهذه ببساطة ليست فكرة جيدة. ليس إذا كنت تريدين فعلاً أن تستغلي الوضع. |
| | | One of the benefits associated with almost any change in personal circumstances (with the possible exception of a prison sentence) is the shopping. You graduate from college, and you simply must buy yourself a congratulatory gift. You get a new job, and you absolutely have to pick out a new wardrobe. You move into your first home, and it’s basically required that you hang out in furniture stores, caressing sofas in an almost lascivious way. |
| | | Pregnancy is no exception. In fact, it’s actually better, because it offers the double joy of shopping for a new baby (new furnishings, strange but fascinating pieces of equipment, darling little scraps of clothing) and for yourself (ditto, ditto, and ditto). |
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| | Of course, it hasn’t always been this way. Society, and the mall, have not always been so kind to the givers of life. There was a time when, if a woman got in the family way, she’d suck it up, in, and any which way she possibly could in order to accommodate her growing girth within her existing wardrobe. She would go to any length (or width) to avoid (A) throwing down cash on a bunch of unsightly maternity dresses, and (B) actually wearing the aforementioned unsightly maternity dresses.
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