Having children is a messy, laborious affair and there are those who feel Catherine is letting the team down by appearing so well put together so soon after birth.
It harkens back to the old days when men were made to wait outside the delivery room until baby was safely delivered, cleaned and tucked snugly into a freshly made-up mum's arms.
The men could then enter the room to a scene of maternal happiness, blessedly unaware of the indignities of birth.
These days, it's far more common for partners to be in the delivery room right from go to whoa.
There's not as much pressure to look good as the partner has witnessed the whole chaotic affair - rose-tinted glasses are well smashed by reality at that point.
That's why seeing the lovely Catherine is a bit jarring for some mothers - it presents a rather glamorised picture and creates unrealistic expectations of birth.
But we need to remember that being in the public eye is Catherine's life - the face she presents to the world will be, by necessity, a more touched-up version of the real Kate.
Nothing about her life is normal by our standards and we can't expect the birth of her children to be any different.
