As mothers, Rachel Yoder and Esther Freud have learnt from the 'rage that arrives in the middle of the night'

New mothers suffer from the pressure to parent 'so incredibly well', novelist Esther Freud says. (Getty: Maria Korneeva)

There's a moment many parents will be familiar with, that comes in the darkest, deepest moment of the night.

Your small child has woken you for the 17th time, your partner is pretending to be asleep and you are, simply, enraged.