{"id":13440,"date":"2017-05-09T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:28:00","slug":"carole-bromley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/carole-bromley\/","title":{"rendered":"Carole Bromley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The New Mother<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>found poem from <em>Every Woman\u2019s Doctor Book<\/em><br \/>\n<em>\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nIf your figure is not as trim as before<br \/>\nmake yourself a brassiere<br \/>\nfrom a 45 inch length of towelling.<\/p>\n<p>Most mothers whose figures are loose<br \/>\nwill be much improved<br \/>\nby wearing a good corset belt.<\/p>\n<p>If there are obvious rolls of fat<br \/>\nin the stomach wall you will need<br \/>\na controlling under-belt.<\/p>\n<p>Have a daily sponge-down or tepid bath<br \/>\nand give every inch of your body<br \/>\na brisk towelling afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Sufferers from falling hair<br \/>\ncan take a general tonic such as<br \/>\nEaston\u2019s Syrup or Parrish\u2019s Chemical Food.<\/p>\n<p>The tissues are relaxed and tender<br \/>\nfor a month after a baby is born<br \/>\nand especially when stiches have been needed.<\/p>\n<p>It is wise to wait for six weeks.<br \/>\nI have known instances where married lives<br \/>\nhave been rendered miserable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Carole Bromley<\/strong> has two collections with Smith\/Doorstop (<em>A Guided Tour of the Ice House<\/em>, 2011 and <em>The Stonegate Devil, <\/em>2015) A collection for children, <em>Blast Off!<\/em>,\u00a0will be published in 2017. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolebromleypoetry.co.uk\/\">www.carolebromleypoetry.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The New Mother found poem from Every Woman\u2019s Doctor Book \u00a0 If your figure is not as trim as before make yourself a brassiere from a 45 inch length of towelling. Most mothers whose figures are loose will be much improved by wearing a good corset belt. If there are obvious rolls of fat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13440"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13852,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13440\/revisions\/13852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}