What is the ‘perfect mother’ anyway? Is the perfect mother the one who breastfeeds the longest? Or the one who doesn’t ever yell at her kids and always get’s them to school and the birthday parties on time? Or the one who always knows how to soothe a crying baby? Maybe the perfect mother is the one who has the tidiest house and is able to juggle work, children, the preschool fete AND make it all look easy?

It was 6 months after the birth of my second son when it dawned on me, I was very unhappy, even though I 'had it all'. I was confused, resentful, sad and felt like an ungrateful failure. Embarrassed and fearful that I had worked in Early Childhood Education for 10 years, loved children and thought that my purpose in life was to have kids.