As soon as a woman has had a child, she should be one thing above all: relaxed. Our author asks herself: how unrelaxed must a society be that demands it so vehemently?
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Friederike Zoe Grasshoff
The child is two days old when the nurse comes into the room and puts pills and a green leaflet on the bedside table. Three paracetamol and the friendly request of the Bavarian State Office for Health and Food Safety not to kill his baby. “Please do not shake! … tender and fragile!”