The post struck a chord with hundreds of other mothers.

One woman agreed that mum stereotypes put unnecessary pressure on her: “So true, I'm constantly beating myself up because I'm sometimes not what I think society expects from a 'mum’”.

Another said: “I'm tattooed from neck to toes, and littered with piercings, a colourful past, and a hell of a lot of good and bad life experience. Every one of those experiences has led me to where I am, and I'm a bloody good mother now.”

“If all mums were the same then the world would be pretty boring wouldn't it?” another responded. “Wait till Lily starts school or nursery it will be ‘is that your mum with the pink hair? She's cool!!!!’”

One woman's awesome response to being told she wasn't the ‘mum type’