Real Mum Stories
The messy, beautiful, hard and hopeful truth of motherhood, shared by mums like you.
⚠ This story discusses job loss, financial pressure and moving a child to a different school.
“She rehearsed the conversation for weeks and still did not know how to start it. A Nigerian single mother on losing her job, changing her child’s school, and the question that broke her.”
“My mother-in-law arrived with a small bag and a large opinion. Three weeks later she walked past me holding a cup of water for my newborn. This is what I learned to say back.”
⚠ This story describes severe breastfeeding pain, shame, and a moment of not coping in the early weeks after birth.
“She thought breastfeeding would come naturally. Instead she counted backwards from fifty through every feed, smiled at visitors, then cried behind a closed door. This is the story she hid from everyone, including her…”
“She was bathing her baby when the thought came. What if I drown her? She froze. She loved her child more than anything, so why was her brain showing her this? Up to 90%…”
“A real Nigerian mum shares her story of postpartum depression during the COVID lockdown. The intrusive thoughts she could not say out loud. The shower she could not get out of. The moment she…”
“Dear working mama, I'm writing this to you on a particularly hard day. The kind of day where everything went wrong and the guilt is sitting heavy on your chest, making it hard to…”
“We used to finish each other's sentences. Now we barely finish conversations before a child interrupts. We used to have date nights and lazy Sunday mornings in bed. Now we communicate through text messages…”
“I hit rock bottom at 3am on a Tuesday morning. My 18-month-old daughter was screaming for the third time that night, there was a mountain of unwashed dishes in the sink, and I was…”
“From the moment my son was born, I knew something was different. While other babies babbled and cooed, my son was mostly quiet. At first, the pediatrician said "all babies develop at their own…”
“When I first held my baby in my arms, everyone told me I should feel overwhelmed with joy. And I did feel love for him, but there was something else lurking beneath the surface…”