From bouncing on a medicine ball to kick-start labour to the tetanus-inducing acoustics of soft play, the journey of motherhood can be quite the ride.

And comedian Sophie McCartney, who has a son, Jack, and a daughter, Evelyn, with husband Steven Lilley, has now offered a very candid glimpse into her own experiences of the highs and lows of becoming a mum.

Sophie, who rose to popularity in 2017 owing to her mom’s parody of Ed Sheeran’s Shape of You, remembers the unwelcome comments she experienced from inquisitive strangers while she was overdue in her new novel Tired and Tested: The Wild Ride into Parenthood.

“Everyone, so it would seem, is an expert on how to get that baby out, and they are not beating around your bush,” she writes.

“What about going for a hike?” Getting up just to go for a wee or trip to the fridge every five minutes was hard enough – I looked as though I was an extra in The Walking Dead. “

The mother-of-two, who has a devoted following because of her straightforward parenting style, goes on to say that people appear to lose all sense of boundaries around heavily pregnant women.

She pens: “Random folk in supermarkets would say ‘what about a little bit of …’ then make an inappropriate whistling noise”. “What? Calling a cat in at night? Nope. Sex. It’s a bit forward, isn’t it?”

“I’m also dubious about the science behind it, because if I was a small defenceless child and could see a one-eyed viper striking at me from the only exit point then I’d bloody well stay put too.”

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