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Kate Dyson set up a Facebook group for mums when she was suffering from post-natal depression. It helped her recover, and running The Motherload - which now has 107,000 members - has been a rewarding experience. But as the pandemic wore on, abusive messages started flooding in, and Kate came close to shutting the whole thing down. There was a real Blitz-style sense of camaraderie during the first lockdown, Kate Dyson says. I had a nine-year-old and seven-year-old who needed homeschooling, and nowhere to take my two-year-old. It s been a real rollercoaster.
Back then, everyone seemed to be respecting The Motherload s motto - sharing the load of motherhood, without judgement - save for the odd comment from overly competitive homeschoolers.
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