Whoa, seriously? Is this in America? I’ll be visiting while pregnant and I *really* hope I’m not showing at all if people are going to be dicks about every part of my existence.

I don’t usually like wine but now I’m pregnant I’m suddenly obsessed with red wine. It tastes *totally* different to how it did before, it’s hilarious.

‘While those who have vaginal births are usually released earlier […] (one to two nights’ made me giggle; I’ve been told to expect to be in for six to 24 hours!

Congratulations! I’m 11 weeks with my first and stupendously excited.

This is NUTS. God. I’m stunned. I knew things were expensive in America but I didn’t realise they didn’t tell you how expensive in advance.

A doctor just told me the other week that if I have a miscarriage there’s no need to go to hospital – it’s generally a stay-at-home-and-take-painkillers thing, because there’s nothing that can be done, apparently.

I would’ve thought that too, till a few weeks ago when my doctor told me that if I had a miscarriage then I didn’t need to go to hospital or a doctor at all and that I could just stay home. I suppose it’s one of those things that personally feels like an emergency, but on a larger scale is so common and so minor that…

Nope, thank god. I can’t imagine trying to have a kid in the US; it sounds appalling!

I think I need to watch it. I’m reeeeeally common English and my husband’s American and no matter how nice our Made.com coffee table is, we are hilariously out of place in our nice neighbourhood… and we’re expecting our first kid.

Yeah, that would be much better. As it stands, it’s basically a mostly useless nice gesture – the only people I’ve known who’ve actually used it were from wealthy families.

Totally. My company does offer sabbaticals (six months, I think), and people genuinely do take them. I think for some people it’s been the difference between quitting and staying.

If they did a show that was just them trying to do murder mystery parties at each others’ houses, I think I would watch it.

It feels pretty free when there’s no bill presented at the end!

Yeah, I’m pretty sure my American in-laws are going to be horrified when they find out that I probably won’t see any doctors during my pregnancy or labour and that it’ll all be midwives. They’ll think it’s *that* sort of midwives; yikes.

That’s exactly what I’m hoping for – birth centre and no doctor, just midwives and a doula. The birth centre’s in one of the top maternity hospital’s around, apparently, so if I *do* need lots of fancy stuff it’s all right there. So glad it went well for you!

Yep! I lived in Los Angeles for years but am from London, and it was hilarious how cheap life seemed to be compared to back home. (And now I live in London again… and am very glad that I’m no longer single.)

I wonder about that near daily (well, any time I see someone with the smooth-face-wrinkled-neck situation, which is often). Is it just impossible to do anything about the neck?

I read this BBC feature on ballet shoes recently – the “painting your shoes a million times” thing is just craziness.

It’s just a standard department store; clever campaign, though.

It’s shockingly cheap, which is why the clients are far more at fault than the (also terrible) photographer. They got a cheap photographer for their cheap wedding and then wondered why everything looked rubbish.