opinion, I feel the space has become too hostile for me to express myself in.

It’s so easy to think, ‘she’s glowing’, or ‘she obviously got pregnant on her first try’. We can very quickly persuade ourselves that she never struggled.

personal brands can’t be compromised by any lightweight or anecdotal content.

competitive. Few births are predictable and a good proportion don’t go exactly the way we might have hoped. A recent survey found that half of all new mothers experience regret, shame, guilt or anger after birth, mostly due to unexpected complications and lack of support. More than 70 per cent say they felt pressured to do things a certain way.

In a recent survey, 52 per cent of women said that getting their figure back was their biggest post-birth concern

While Facebook clarified that nursing images were fine “in principle”, they reiterated that the nipple must not be visible.

The hypocrisy is stunning – all sorts of sexually charged images of girls in bikinis revealing their derrieres and hoicked-up cleavages are fine, but a woman feeding her child in the most nonsexual setting possible is somehow unacceptable.

six in ten girls now say they feel prettier online than they do offline.

especially breasts in non-sexual contexts – the new platforms have applied a holier-than-thou attitude.