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Mothers Uncovered� is an award-winning project for the Livestock charity. We run low cost creative peer support groups for mothers, led by past participants.

Founded 2008. Support our campaign here for better maternal care. www.change.org/SupportMatrescence. Matrescence means the process of becoming a mother. Like adolescence, it is a time of new identity, bodily changes and hormonal fluctuations, yet we don't honour this time or look after mothers properly. Mothers Uncovered helps women at ALL stages of motherhood to reconnect with the women they’ve always been. If you feel your life as a mother is a rollercoaster, with blissful highs and overwhelming lows and some mum and baby groups offer no opportunity to discuss real issues, then Mothers Uncovered is for you. We run a range of groups and events across Sussex and online nationally and are looking to expand. Our sessions are warm, welcoming, non judgemental spaces, involving facilitated discussion and arts activities. Our peer supporters who lead the groups are all past participants. They are not perfect mothers. They certainly don’t want to tell you how to be mothers. They are going through it all too. Participant feedback

A truly valuable experience which pulled me from the brink of post natal depression. Considerate & understanding facilitators. Thank you all so much.”
‘Mothers Uncovered fills a gap you didn’t even know was there.’

Our book
The Secret Life of Mothers, is a compilation of over 50 past participants’ stories, interviews and poems about their motherhood experience, with foreword by Caroline Lucas, MP. Available from Silverdart publishers or Amazon. Awards
Winner of Community Works' Star Sector Award for providing 'support for women at a transitional point in their lives and creating a legacy for future generations.'
Finalist Groundwork Awards 2019

You care for your baby, but who cares for you?

05/10/2026

Call for participants for breastfeeding research - if you are interested in taking part, please contact Jennah Evans at [email protected]

02/10/2026

A reminder of our My Birth session on Wednesday next week.

Are you still thinking about the birth of your child, weeks, months, even years after, when you ‘should be over it by now?’

What do you wish someone had asked you after your birth?
Not “is baby sleeping?”
But… how are YOU feeling about what happened?

Our My Birth session is a calm, supportive space to talk, reflect, or simply listen.
It is a space for a range of experiences, you don’t have to exclude yourself if you think your birth wasn’t difficult enough.

Every birth story is valid.

You can come at any stage of motherhood and to more than one session. (We ask that you choose which birth to focus on in the session if you have more than one child).

No pressure. No judgement. Just people who get it.

📍Kingston Buci Family Hub
📆 Second Wednesday of month
🕥 12:15 - 2:15
👶 Babies up to 14 months welcome
✍️ Link via Happity

Sometimes just being in the room is enough.

15/09/2026

Why Matrescence Matters

Who supports the mothers?

There are already brilliant people, organisations and communities supporting mothers through pregnancy, birth and beyond.

But there’s a word for the transition mothers themselves are experiencing that many people still haven’t heard: matrescence.

Matrescence describes the physical, emotional, social and psychological transition of becoming a mother. Giving that experience a name can help us recognise it, talk about it and better understand what mothers are going through.

That’s what Matrescence Matters Week is about.

From 26 September to 2 October, we’re helping to put a name to an experience millions of mothers go through, and bringing matrescence into the conversation.

Because supporting mothers also means recognising the transition they’re experiencing. 🧡

14/09/2026

What is matrescence?

Have you heard the word matrescence before?

Matrescence describes the transition into motherhood. It’s not simply the moment a baby is born, but the physical, emotional, social and psychological changes that can come with becoming a mother.

Identity can shift. Relationships can change. Your body, work, priorities, confidence and sense of self can all feel different.

It’s a huge transition, yet many mothers go through it without ever having a word to describe what they’re experiencing.

That word is matrescence.

This Matrescence Matters Week, we want more people to know it, talk about it and understand it.

05/09/2026

Something important is coming. 🧡

In three weeks, we’re launching Matrescence Matters Week, a week dedicated to something every mother experiences, but many of us have never had a word for.

Matrescence is the transition into motherhood. It can bring profound changes to our bodies, brains, identities, relationships, emotions and the way we see ourselves and the world around us.

Yet while so much attention is placed on the arrival of a baby, the transformation of the mother can be overlooked.

From 26 September to 2 October, we want to change that.

We’ll be sharing experiences, starting conversations and helping more people understand what matrescence is, why it matters and why mothers deserve to feel seen and supported through it.

The word may be unfamiliar. The experience isn’t.

🧡 26 September – 2 October
🌐 matrescence.uk

03/09/2026

💚 **Free places now available!**

Our next **Realise Your Potential** course is coming to Worthing **this month**.

A supportive five-week course for mums to reconnect with themselves, explore what matters most and think about what comes next, whether that’s work, study, a new direction or simply finding a bit more clarity.

📍 Heene Community Centre, Worthing
📅 Starts Thursday 24 September
⏰ 10:15am–12pm
👶 Babies welcome
💚 **Free places available**

Find out more and book:
https://www.happity.co.uk/schedules/mothers-uncovered-worthing-heene-community-centre-realise-your-potential

Please share with a mum who might benefit 💚

18/08/2026

Delighted to bring you the next episode of with Eirinie Carson.
Eirinie was born in London and is now living in California. She writes about sexual taboos, death and dying, illegal substances, hauntings both real and imagined, and ancestral inheritance in a world desperate to sever the connections between what came before and what is to come. Her work has appeared in LitHub, the Notre Dame Review, Electric Literature, the Sonora Review, the Los Angeles Review, The Unibrow, and others.
We discuss all things and her experiences of motherhood, which shaped her first work of fiction, the maternal gothic novel, Bloodfire, Baby (Dutton, 2026), which has been named one of the year’s best debuts by Debutiful.

17/08/2026

Excellent piece here by Julia Sanders, professor of clinical midwifery and advisor to the Amos review.
Balanced, non-judgmental, acknowledging that blaming and vilifying midwives does not improve the matter.

06/08/2026

How’s the summer holidays going for you? If you’re parenting small children, you’re quite likely exhausted, wanting everyone to have a good time, despite vastly differing needs.
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Children like to think they have a measure of control in their life and that helps give it to them.
You’re not alone.
And you’re doing the best you can.

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C/o Community Base, 113 Queens Road
Brighton
BN13XG

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http://www.mothersuncovered.com/

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