I have a business idea for the entrepreneurial, sartorial type. An elegant line of post-maternity clothes. Almost all new mothers – apart from those who claim to leave the maternity ward in the same pair of jeans they wore on the day of conception – will say the have a wardrobe full of clothes but nothing to wear. Normal clothes too small, maternity clothes too big and nothing in which you can breastfeed discreetly.

A few maternity shops do include a ‘nursing’ line, but the clothes they offer are these strange shaped t-shirts with a big split in the front and invariably ugly. One solution is to wear your partner’s shirts – though usually he needs those. Another is to invest in the odd pretty high-waisted loose dress with buttons down the front. But they are few and far between and trying anything on is impossible when carrying a baby in a sling.

All I can say is thank god it is summer – winter would make these wardrobe challenges harder still. Perhaps it is time I started sewing (in all of those idle moments … ).