{"id":31570,"date":"2025-10-30T17:39:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=31570"},"modified":"2025-10-30T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T17:39:00","slug":"a-doctors-bracing-advice-to-new-mums-brief-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=31570","title":{"rendered":"A doctor\u2019s bracing advice to new mums | Brief letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Celebrities\u2019 bodies | Rachel Reeves | Income tax | Dogs on sofas<\/p>\n<p>Coco Khan\u2019s article (Opinion, 22 October) reminded me of a visit to my GP 30 years ago, after the birth of my son. While waiting to go in, I\u2019d been perusing the usual array of magazines featuring celebrities, several of whom had recently given birth and had seemingly bounced back into shape overnight. When I saw the doctor, a wonderful gentleman edging towards retirement, and quizzed him on how on earth this was possible, his response was quite simple: \u201cCorsetry, my dear.\u201d<br \/><strong>Sarah Postins<\/strong><br \/><em>Catworth, Cambridgeshire<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 I have a question for Rachel Reeves in response to her column ( 28 October). Can&nbsp;she tell us the income threshold at which someone goes from being in the \u201cworking people\u201d category to being in the \u201cbroadest shoulders\u201d category? Then everyone will be crystal clear about what is coming for them in November\u2019s budget.<br \/><strong>Chris Hudson<\/strong><br \/><em>Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire<\/em><\/p>\n<p> Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrities\u2019 bodies | Rachel Reeves | Income tax | Dogs on sofas Coco Khan\u2019s article (Opinion, 22 October) reminded me of a visit to my GP 30 years ago, after the birth of my son. While waiting to go in, I\u2019d been perusing the usual array of magazines featuring celebrities, several of whom had recently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[325,12151,366,2633,10244],"class_list":{"0":"post-31570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-advice","9":"tag-bracing","10":"tag-doctors","11":"tag-letters","12":"tag-mums"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}