Why we should do ourselves a favour and stop looking to celebrity role models

Our grandparents had Dr Benjamin Spock, our parents had Penelope Leach, we have something entirely different - the "Sadie and Jude school of parenting", as Hello magazine has dubbed it. That's the method Kate Moss, new mother of Lola, is going to follow - so why don't we?

According to the Sadie (Frost) and Jude (Law) ethos, step number one is to be unreliant on a nanny to take your baby off your hands. As if this wasn't revolutionary enough, Sadie adds that being present at the birth of her friends' babies (ie Kate's), even though her own is only two weeks' old, is also an important tenet.

Such mother-to-mother bonding (since producing a status symbol baby is what it's really all about) is nothing compared to the pre-birth promenades, where skinny, pregnant actresses and models show off their naked bumps the way they used to show off their Gucci and Valentino.

Sadie marched confidently through her own pregnancy wearing combat trousers hitched comfortably below the navel, so that she looked like a beer-bellied builder in ill-fitting jeans. You may be a mother, but nothing will stop you working! The trick is to keep in employment, while also not relying on a nanny.

Kate Moss - who ethereally wafted through pregnancy in Pucci print frocks - tends to do this by bringing her baby with her wherever she goes.

"These girls are very lucky and can take their babies with them on shoots," comments Alexandra Shulman, editor of British Vogue. If only all employers felt the same way. My only gripe is that these women - the Kates, Sadies, Megs and the rest - look so darned good during pregnancy, with their navel-pierced bumps protruding Venus-like.

Can we please have more pictures of mothers looking truly wrecked? The rest of us are beginning to feel a bit inferior.