More for less

Downscaling from disposable nappies to the good old-fashioned towelling kind or – even more drastic – selling your three-bedroom home to live in a squashy little box of atownhouse with your family of three, when you’re about to give birth… A large percentage of the global population is taking extreme measures to merely make ends meet during one of the biggest recessions ever. Typical middle-class, two-income families have had to do some radical downscaling due to job loss and the slowing down of the economy.

Now, imagine all this that you’re pregnant: as the recession gives birth to a whole number of scarily bleak situations, so the