Mummy's Treasure Chest
Friday 1st February 2008 by Dulwich Mum
 Bea Parry-Jones is a late thirty something mother of two. She’s author of hugely successful blog Dulwichmum  , in which she documents her efforts to avoid absolute lunacy and remain on the right side of conscientious parenting. She and her husband spend a small fortune on private education, Baby Boden, Babybels and the au pairs gym membership.
Bea’s first novel “Sex Lies and Sellotape – confessions of a Dulwich mum” will be published in 2008.
I adore selecting the perfect gifts for Valentine’s Day. I have yet to be disappointed by the lingerie that hubby purchases for me (yes I provide him with enormous hints and ensure that he knows the correct size) because he genuinely has the best taste (of course he does, I’ve spent years training him!).
So I’ve been perusing the Valentine’s Lingerie Gift Guide
 for ideas and compiling a list of my favourites for him to inspect (give them some choices and they’ll feel like they’ve picked it themselves!).
 If you’re with child at present then don’t despair... decadent, luxurious underwear is still the perfect Valentine’s gift, indeed – even when pregnant, Rubenesque, round and ripe like a luscious fruit - you can look your best in silky and sensuous offerings.
Thanks to the likes of Amoralia , the days of big bland knickers and maternity bras with cups the shape of sails and straps as sturdy as bandages are long gone. A girl must always make the most of her gifts – which can (and most probably will) grow to ample proportions when pregnant. Indeed, my cups were positively brimming, and only served to remind my man of his own virility!
Of course under wiring is best avoided whilst gravid, but clever cuts, satin, silk and embroidery can always help a girl to accommodate her growing fertile form and make her look and feel her best.
Some of the luxurious underwear around at the moment could almost make a girl feel broody!
 Luxurious lingerie is a necessary investment; a new ensemble is an asset worth acquiring if your man is rendered speechless by it. Cheap, crudely made garments, constructed of man-made fibres are unpleasant to the touch.
There should never ever be any room in a lady’s lingerie chest to accommodate cheap acrylic underwear purchased in multi-packs from chain stores.
My treasure chest is all about quality and certainly not quantity and I’ve always found that the rustle of expensive tissue paper from La Perla or Agent Provocateur (yes, they sell maternity lingerie – this sexy soft cup pictured above is a show stopper) can instantly focus my man’s mind and guarantee his undivided attention.
Pregnancy is most certainly exhausting but it is not the time for a girl to rest on her laurels.
 With such amazing lingerie on the market for both pre and post pregnancy (Elle Macpherson’s Intimates Nursing Bra pictured is pretty and practical), it would be sinful not to capitalise on one’s growing assets!
So go on, make your Valentine’s Day lingerie suggestions to your men so that you can get on with searching for your own gift for him. He will pay for both gifts... clearly!
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