Nintendo at naptime: how to play video games after having a baby

Here's one of the more bizarre and pressurising fictions of motherhood: the second you give birth, everything in your previous life instantly becomes meaningless. You might have spent 30 years enjoying skiing or novels or, you know, a career, but as soon as you're someone's mummy you become singularly devoted to parenthood forever. If you do have any spare time in between tending to the ceaseless needs of your infant you're supposed to spend it either baking or aggressively researching local schools. Oddly enough, we don't expect dads to give up all their hobbies and redirect their energies into sewing bunting or father-baby yoga. Mums shouldn't have to either.