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If you walk into any bookshop, the largest section outside the fiction department

will be the books about parenting.

More than cookery, more than sport.

It seems that what we really want to know about is how to be a parent.

And if you look yet more closely, you'll see that most of these books are aimed at women.

They're about mothers.

Any self-respecting bookshop will contain row upon row of books designed to guide the unsuspecting through the perilous terrain

that is motherhood. Of course, it all starts long before birth. There are books to advise women

how to prepare for pregnancy. How should one eat and exercise to maximize one's chances of conception?

There is a veritable mountain of books to see a woman through pregnancy itself.

Page after page about the developing fetus and all that mother must and must not do in order to keep it in good health.

The advice surrounding birth is simulcopious, home or hospital, midwife or doctor, gas and air

or pethidine, who could have thought there would be so much choice?

And then, of course, comes motherhood itself.

Breast or bottle, family bed or cot, responsive to babies' cries or a regimented routine, how and when to wean,

what to feed your baby, when to return to work, how to cope with your terrible two,

with the arrival of a new sibling with potty training. There are books for every eventuality.

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