From the way you handle explosive-poo situations to your attitude to sleep routines, nothing puts your character in the spotlight quite like being a new mum – which is perhaps why mums make such easy targets for stereotyping.
But if these tongue-in-cheek labels are just a bit of harmless fun, why do they invariably seem to focus on negative traits?
‘Competitive’, ‘judgmental’, ‘over-sharing’ and ‘overprotective’ are hardly terms that celebrate The Motherhood. In fact, they’re enough to make your average mum-to-be want to run a mile.
Yet the mother & baby circuit is probably one of the most supportive and welcoming communities you could wish to meet. Whether it’s local activity groups and NCT classes or online forums and the mummy-blogosphere, you’re never far from a friendly mum.
So as we believe all mums are awesome (because motherhood is bloody hard), we’ve decided to turn the negative stereotypes on their head and celebrate some of the brilliant mum types you might be lucky enough to meet on the circuit.