Ok Ok
Time for some different news.
The beautiful spring day of yesterday, has bounced back into a rather blustery and wet Wednesday.
Overnight new mum Sorrel hatched out four tiny white chicks in her impregnable broody box, three of which she has accidentally flattened like pancakes with her large inexperienced buff orpington feet.
Nature can be a bit of an odd bod sometimes, as many younger animals do not have that innate ability to care for their babies with an ingrained, unwavering skill. Some mums simply need to learn
When I was a gal, mothers generally were housewives
They cared for the kids in houses that were often influenced by a matriarch, a sort of sage that showed new mums the ropes so to speak.
Grandmothers and aunts
They were the unsung supervisors,role models and mentors for a new mother
They helped with the washing on Monday
and often did the ironing on a Tuesday afternoon.
They were the ones that knitted those intricate white cardigans and bonnets we were all forced to wear
and showed their daughters just how to bath the baby in the sink, once the dishes had been removed.
I don't think I am guilty of seeing the past through rose coloured glasses when I say mothers in the past were apprentices of sorts, with their extended family acting as unofficial assessors and teachers
Today new mums are expected to go back to work . Indeed many have to return before little Jake or Amelie has outgrown their first babygrow! Grandparents seem younger than they did.....they are not just around the corner anymore and many of them have careers of their own.
Being a matriarch housewife is not seen as a vital job anymore.
Money needs to be earned
So who DOES mentor new mums nowadays?
Of course grandmothers will always be the first port of call
but I wonder just how many inexperienced "Sorrels" there are out there, isolated stressed and clueless
what do I bloody know?
I haven't got an 'effing clue have I?
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I will leave you with a pic of the "patient"
Fingers crossed