The rich, the well-favored, the well-situated, are surrounded with a confusing protective mass of extraneous and irrelevant matter that tends to hide the substance beneath.
Recently, American scientists discovered that by using a tweaked shampoo recipe on old woolly mammoth hair, they could remove the extraneous bacteria from the strands and get clean DNA samples.
It's really, really possible that as we focus more on our pregnancy, some of the other extraneous stuff that we used to have at top of mind, no longer is.