The Australian Women's Weekly

Baby on board

Who was waiting at the door the day you brought your first baby home from hospital? My mum was there once. At other times my mother-in-law, Clare, herself the mother of seven, stepped up to the plate. But most of the time it was the MOTH (The Man of the House) and me, muddling along.

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