Sarah Harris, 34, has showed us the house her and husband Tom have bought together. And then she shared the baby bump. This witty news reporter is preparing to be a first time mum, with all the fear, guilt and complications that concept draws to mind, and has been sharing her pregnancy with social media regularly.
Sadly, just as other parents have experienced, Sarah can’t seem to escape the online mummy bullies.
So what is a “sancto-mummy?” In an exclusive interview with the Daily Telegraph, Sarah defines this strange idea as mothers who “love to scrutinise and criticise and usually have very strong opinions on just about every parenting debate.”
They're passive aggressive. Always "know best." And unfortunately, they seem to lurk around the corner of every other woman's pregnancy - particularly those, god forbid, that were different from their own.
Sarah Harris is only half way through her pregnancy at 21 weeks - but she's already been stung, reports the Daily Telegraph.
Just as we all have our vices, and cravings begin to rear their head when bub is on the way, Sarah is a reporter. She NEEDS coffee in the morning. Coffee keeps her going. But she's given up the soft cheese that might follow on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Of course, this type of public display of "unsafe" drinking has been judged by just about every sancto-mummy on instagram.
Sarah has obviously been deeply distressed by the comments. She told the Daily Telegraph, "it’s hard not to feel like a failure when viewers tell me that if I really cared about the health of my unborn baby, I wouldn’t dare wear stilettos to work or bleach my hair."
On twitter, Sarah basically summarised the issue. "I'm pregnant and I drink coffee, wear stilettos and bleach my hair. This makes me a bad mum, apparently."
