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Baby love lends itself to naive prints, eye-catching apparel and a feather-light mood as soft as a snowy cloud, writes Nicole Bittar.

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WELL, it's been a few weeks since I had a baby and you'll be relieved to know I'm back in my size 6 white jeans. Yay, me. Also, I'm doing triathlons to blitz those last few pesky grams of baby weight. Isn't that great?

MANY baby boomers dread the "cardigan and slippers" image of the old-age pensioner, the reverse of the youth culture they spawned, according to a study of the so-called "lucky" generation.