There's the...
Yummy mummy and the...
Slummy mummy's and now the ...
Dummy Mummy.
WHATEVER NEXT?!!
Scummy mummy (I'm a bit untidy but I have some standards)
Gummy mummy (oohhhh DO NOT get me started on teeth, gums and pregnancy. I knew a woman who lost all her teeth when she was pregnant, they just fell out...guess she'd be a gummy mummy; did have the most perfect set of false one though).
But Dummy Mummy....to be fair to Ms Cooke ,I think she was only depicting a certain type of mother in her article (c'mon we all know at least one; dwelling in the deeper most regions of Nappy Valley) but she certainly has raised a lot of hackles; opened a can of some very disgruntled worms etc etc. In truth, I think once you've had your first and they've reached an age when they can start answering you back, the dummy mummy stance does lose momentum. Most of the 2nd/3rd/4th time mums (not all Ms Cooke appears to have met the exception to the rule) I know are more interested in discussing their varicose veins and receding gum lines than nipple cream and breast pads (well I want to give the Dummies a little bit of what they fancy). Either that or they just want a damn good night out, teamed with a lie in until midday. Maybe she's trapped in the inner most sanctum of Nappy Valley...in fact she should pack her Pacapod, steal a Bugaboo and scoot over my way...where we mainly just moan about "stuff"; anything will do...(although sometimes, for variety, we may complain).
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as for her article, after I stopped being annoyed, I realised that what wasn't twaddle, was mostly piffle.
I would love to come round your way and have a good old fashioned bitch about me veins and me gums.
The thing is if someone is excited about something you let them go on about it a bit. My friend's husband is an estate agent (I know but he's not like one of THOSE ones). I have NO interest whatsoever in property BUT I let him go on about it a bit....didn't have a bloody CLUE what he was going on about but I like to think I was being a bit kind. Ahh the aftermath of pregnancy; got off lightly on the veins; that doesn't mean the back of me isn't riddled with 'em; have a tendency to avoid my rear view these days so wouldn't know. But gums...Oh my...I spend some time pulling my bottom lip down asking people to look and see if they think my gums are receding...thank god we still have an NHS dentist...
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