Love might have been in the air the night your kids were conceived. But a recent survey in the Australian Daily Telegraph revealed that most of us would choose Zs over Xs.
In fact, 70 per cent of the 500 Aussie moms polled would prefer a decent night's sleep over a night of mind blowing sex. For moms with a child under one, sleep was an even bigger fantasy, with 81 per cent choosing sleep over sex.
The fascinating survey also revealed many home truths which exhausted, time-poor mums don't even reveal to friends and family, like over 30 per cent of moms have medicated their kids to get them to sleep or just calm them down.
Nearly 40 per cent admitted they'd sent their child to school or daycare sick, as they had no choice due to work commitments.
"There is not a lot of honesty in today's society about the reality of being a mother, we are led to believe that it's not at all difficult to be the perfect mother," said Amanda Cox, who developed a popular Aussie website called Real Mums.
"On top of that, commercials are full of happy, smiley mothers who have their hair done and are not wearing their pyjamas at 4pm."
Some other fascinating stats flagged by the survey:
around 30 per cent moms would prefer to lose five to 10 kilograms than add five to 10 points to their child's IQ.
a third of moms admit to feeling jealous of their childless friends at least some of the time.
almost 30 per cent of those with two or more children admit to having a favourite child at least sometimes.
almost half of moms feel pressure to compete with other mothers with regard to their child's achievements.
Are you surprised by any of these findings?
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