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One of the things I wish more women were told is this: You are allowed to change after becoming a mother. Not just physically, but emotionally, mentally, socially and professionally too. Motherhood changes almost every part of a person’s life, yet many women feel pressure to become “themselves again” as quickly as possible. To return to who they were before. To bounce back emotionally, physically and socially while carrying one of the biggest identity shifts a person can expe

When people think about support for mothers, they often think about practical things first. Feeding support. Sleep advice. Appointments. Milestones. And those things matter deeply. But one thing I have come to realise through working as a midwife, building Breastfeeding with Abigail, and creating Matrescence CIC is that many women are not simply looking for information. They are looking for somewhere to put everything they are carrying. Motherhood can be intensely isolating,

Matrescence was born from my own breakdown and rebuilding — and from the realisation that women need spaces where they can be honest, supported, and not alone through identity change.