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.
Something described as extraneous does not form a necessary part of something else, and may also therefore be considered irrelevant or unimportant (as in " extraneous details" ).
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.