A MUM has praised by hundreds of parents for revealing brutally honest details about her second childbirth experience on Instagram.
Victoria, from East London, known online as The Crafty Fox, recently gave birth to her daughter Edith, her second child, whom she described as ‘smashing through her cervix’ with her ‘giant cranium’.
The 36-year-old has also shared details of her swollen nipples online, suffering from piles after the birth and not knowing the time of day thanks to the craziness of looking after two children.
Wanting to break the stigma around ’embarrassing or taboo’ subjects, the design blogger admits she hopes to help other parents by being honest.
She told the Mail Online: “There are so many physical and mental changes that happen during pregnancy and postpartum that aren’t discussed by a lot of people.
“So when you find yourself with a swollen vagina, nipples the size of digestive biscuits and enormous piles hanging out you a***, it can come as a shock and you can feel very alone and abnormal.
“But these things happen to the majority of us – so why don’t we normalise the fact that motherhood doesn’t always live up to the ridiculous ideals of being beautiful and perfect?”
Victoria often takes to Instagram to share her attempts at navigating life after birth, and hundreds of other parents check in with each update.
“It’s been one whole month since Edith the anus impaler conquered my cervix with her giant cranium and overthrew Oliver’s reign as king of the baby bell***s,” she wrote in one post.
“I no longer know what the time is, whether my vagina will ever feel the same again or how I can take a s*** without my insides falling out.”
The mum-of-two receives thousands of positive reactions to the brutally honest posts, something which she admits to finding ‘overwhelming’ and ’empowering’.
Many take to the comment section to echo Victoria’s feelings about motherhood, including her own mum, who recently responded to one of the Crafty Fox’s posts.
“Enjoy it whilst they are young and you have control,” Victoria’s mum wrote. “Look at me worrying all the time about what you are doing when most of the time you are taking the p*** out of me.”
Women who have been through similar struggles share their support for Victoria on her social media accounts – with many admitting they ‘wished they could read this’ when they first became mums.
“You are just awesome and I love what you write,” one woman explained. “You know there are still new mums out there who think they have to be perfect. I wish I’d been able to read this then.”
Another agreed: “Hilarious and so much truth! Having a second one hits you as hard as he first. I’m four months in with the second one and still wondering WTF!”
“This is all so true,” a third added. “Real life being a parent is so exhausting. Then you get celebs who are back out in the world two days after giving birth and you wonder how they have done it.”
