] After all, the high waisted dresses were not constricting AND pregnancy might not have even shown for a while longer.

I keep trying to figure out if Charlotte Palmer, in S&S2, is pregnant in the earlier scenes and they are bringing young Thomas home with them as in the novel; or did they assume for the sake of the adaptation that the baby had been left behind with nurse and nanny? Those dress styles are so like maternity styles that I simply can't make my mind up about this. ;-)

But then, that begs the question...how did one travel with an infant that young? I'm thinking about diaper changes on the road without disposables or wipes, keeping an infant's tiny head from bobbing around in a bumpy carriage for hours on end and keeping the carriage warm enough (in the cooler months) for a little one.

No wonder Isabella Knightley so rarely visited her father and sister. ;-)