Claire is cleaning fragrant poo off her baby's buttocks and she feels "this experience fulfils my need to have children and makes me happy but it's work!"
Claire's husband arrives home and she asks "How was your day dear?" and he says "I've had a long hard day at work, and I'm tired please give me my my dinner." He does not asks how her day went and Claire feels disappointed and unhappy that her husband thinks that she does not earn money and therefore what she does is not work.
As Claire puts a white plate of steaming steak, peas, carrots, potatoes on the dining table for her husband she says "Would you ask me how my day went? Mothers work too."