Not sure I can pull of the Unitard but count me in.

I knew I had forgotten one.

Thanks, we are fairly relaxed about bodies in our family, we change together at the pool etc. I hope to have many frank and relaxed discussions with my kids when they are a bit older about it all. They are already happy with the idea of breast-feeding and know what boobs are for.

I did too!

Oooo, I read a biography of the Mitford Girls years ago and it was fabulous.

I don't think it's a case of being shameful, my young daughter is five and can read very well.

Thank you, elephant as palate cleanser!

Exactly, he was doing not bad until he got to the part about 'well you knew you might get pregnant when you starting having sex' and was basically advocating the aspirin-between-the-knees at that point.

That's true, they don't get to say much do they? Once you get past the start in England, which really is kind-of bad, the story shifts back to Clover and Geoff and yes, you guessed it! Clarence and Elsie (not a spoiler as it's revealed in the first chapter or so.)

Because people sometimes panic?

Yes, these hatches are not an alternative to abortion, they are an alternative to leaving a baby in a shop doorway or rubbish bin.

There is a blog by a GP I used to read who wrote an article in the British Financial times about this and how harmful the 'war' and 'fight' language around cancer is and can be.

I hadn't heard of this before either but it is insane!

I go with Caitlin Moran's definition.

Most SSRIs (fluoxetine and citalopram etc, especially the older ones) have years of safety data now for use in pregnancy. Sometimes baby can be a bit 'jittery' in the day or so after birth but that's all.

Did you read High Valley? One of my first go-too Katy books now. The beginning stinks but keep with it. Clarence ends up happy, don't worry!

Me too, it's in my top 3, definately.

I didnt ever had that problem, in Anne of Ingleside she and Diana visit Hester's garden again and Anne comments (from memory) 'don't you think there is something not quite chaste about the smell of a lilac? It's as though they are remember some too sweet, too secret pleasure' Something like that anyway, my young…

Yep, you can get most of them for free in the Amazon kindle store, and some of the later ones are pence only.

Very well done for taking that guy on. Props to you. I was exhausted just reading it all, you were patient and polite.