Or we judge ourselves if we don’t find it easy, natural or quick to fall pregnant, or if our experience with labour doesn’t fit the ‘ideal’ narrative.
We feel guilty if we have difficulties with pregnancy or performing the mama tasks we’re ‘supposed to’ naturally excel at.
This is why it’s so important that together, we begin to unravel the deeply ingrained cultural myth that insists mothers and their bodies must fit some impossible and arbitrary perfect standard.