# @mumswhobuild on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/69421497-mumswhobuild-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-08-21T21:41:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The MOB: App + Slack Community (@mumswhobuild) — https://gondola.cc/mumswhobuild

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Everyone has something to tell you about motherhood.

Sleep more. Rest more. Go back to work. Stay home. Bounce back. Make time for yourself. Put the baby first.

🙃 Make it make sense.

At our latest Big MOB Meet-up Mat Leave Special, omalley_katie founder of alongwaytogoclub hosted Beyond The Motherhood Myths — an honest conversation about some of the “rules” women are handed when they become mums.

We unpacked three big ones:

→ “You should bounce back within 6 weeks.”
→ “Self-care is the answer to postpartum overwhelm.”
→ “You should want to go back to work.” Or… “You should want to stay home.”

And the biggest takeaway?

There is no one “right” way to do motherhood.

There is no universal recovery timeline.

Self-care can be important, but it can’t solve a lack of support or broken systems — and what you need will change as you move through motherhood.

Going back to work is valid. Staying home is valid. Cutting maternity leave short, taking longer, sharing parental leave or changing direction entirely — valid.

And none of it needs justifying.

Some motherhood advice is false. Some is a half-truth. And some is missing a LOT of context.

Which is exactly why conversations like this matter.

A huge thank you to Katie for stepping forward to host, sharing what she knows and creating space for other mums to talk honestly about what they need. 🤍

Because that’s what our meet-ups are about too: mums sharing their knowledge, growing their confidence and becoming more visible.

So perhaps it’s time to throw the “right” way to do motherhood out the window, ask “what do I actually need?” — and whack some white noise on to drown out the rest of the nonsense. 😌

💬 Which motherhood myth are you most ready to ignore?

#mumswhobuild #maternityleave

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