Two months after giving birth to her second child, Survivor alum Moana Hope has revealed the seemingly innocent question she hates being asked as a mum.
Moana, who welcomed a son with wife Isabella Carlstrom in June, took to Instagram to call on people to have more awareness around new mothers.
“There’s a question I keep getting from people and it’s my least favourite question ever and I want to explain why. If you’re that person who asks this question maybe this will give you some insight into what not to ask people who have just had a baby,” she said.
Moana and her wife Isabella share daughter Svea and newborn son Ahi.
(Image: Instagram)“When somebody says to me, ‘oh is he a good baby or a bad baby?’ and I’m always like, ‘what defines being bad?’ and they’re always like, ‘well does he sleep or doesn’t sleep?’
“So basically you’re saying that if he doesn’t sleep, he’s bad and if he does sleep then he’s good.”
The 34-year-old went on to say that all babies have different sleep schedules and can cry for a number of reasons.
“It’s probably because he’s either hungry, needs his nappy changed, needs to be burped or he’s unwell or teething,” she said.
The couple welcomed Ahi in June.
(Image: Instagram)“I’m sure there’s other reasons babies cry, but I’m talking about my baby.”
“We need to stop calling babies ‘good babies’ or ‘bad babies’ based on whether they sleep or don’t sleep, cry or don’t cry.”
Moana said that Ahi is her “perfect baby and doesn’t need to be labelled good or bad.”
“My job is to support him through those moments with a little bit of extra love and attention,” she continued.
Ahi is Moana’s second baby, after her wife Isabella gave birth to their first child, 18-month-old Svea, in November 2020.
When the former AFL player announced her exciting pregnancy last year, she revealed they used the same donor, which means Svea and their new bub are full siblings.
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