Did you watch the motherhood movie trailer, the one in which a healthy-looking mama struts down the road, pushing a smiling baby to meet all her lovely new friends for a latte?

For a lot of us, it never matched reality.

Not the exhaustion. Not the loneliness. Not the dark thoughts. Not the mum guilt. Not the survival mode.

This week I wrote about the “other” motherhoods - the ones with struggles, fears, mental health issues and worse. What if “other” motherhoods were actually the reality for most of us?