They say gaining too much weight will make it harder to lose “it” again after giving birth. As if the weight one gains during pregnancy is ballast, stored in discrete ingots around the waist, the thighs
I reread Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse recently, wanting to revisit the virtuosic mother and household manager Mrs. Ramsay now that I have a child myself (a mere one instead of eight, admittedly—but then, I also lack a staff of nanny, housekeeper, and multiple silly and homesick maids).