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Lounging on the sofa in the sun-bathed sitting room of her North London home, while her 11-month-old daughter Tabitha plays happily on her lap, it’s clear that Jade Parfitt has taken motherhood in her stride. Though Jade is in her element talking pregnancy and babies these days, it’s a world away from her early life as a model, discovered aged 15 when her mother entered her into a competition on ITV’s When Jade gets a moment to herself she retreats to Eqvvs where her trainer Nicola Addison keeps those model limbs in shape, or she loves Tara Lee’s yoga classes at The Life Centre in Notting Hill. And when she and the kids are knocking around London she takes Tabitha to Monkey Music classes or they head en famile to Kew Gardens, which Jade’s grandmother buys her a membership for each year.

Hormones, nappies and travel systems are just the beginning, as Martha Alexander welcomes her baby daughter to the world I have given birth ( one day’s worth of slow labour, one sweep, three uncomfortable baths, a million contractions, seven isotonic drinks, one epidural, two blood-pressure-related seizures, four midwives, nine junior doctors, eight hours of active labour, zero forceps, one healthy baby girl) and, despite all my moaning, it turns out that morning sickness, sobriety, weight gain, immobility and giving birth were small fry compared to the big fish – otherwise known as Robin Tamara Hamilton – I’m battling now. We are incompetent morons and we took a real-life baby home. It’s not as big as the original Silver Cross prams, but knowing my little kidney bean will be wheeled around in comfort is assuring at a time when I feel insecure and in freefall.