The

Motherhood

Index

The Motherhood Index, produced by Peanut and Nuna, is the new cultural authority on modern parenthood.

Drawing on the survey responses of 4,000 women across the globe, analysis of over 420,000 community posts and in-depth qualitative interviews, the Motherhood Index exists to educate the rest of the world on what matters most to mothers in 2026.

The stories borne from the data are not always comfortable, but they are essential. Alongside hardship we see threads of adaptation, honesty, reinvention and mothers building the infrastructure they need for themselves, not waiting to be saved.

Across five pillars - health, community, identity, purchasing, and the future - the Index surfaces the tensions, contradictions, and quiet urgencies that define motherhood today. Because truly understanding what it means to be a mother today is a cultural imperative.

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61

of mothers describe their mental well-being as "Good."

%

93

of mothers are also experiencing burnout.

%

Modern mothers are speaking more openly about identity, burnout, ambition, loneliness, trauma and matrescence than any other generation. And with that, they are becoming clearer and more uncompromising about what they need from the future.

( 1 ) THE WEIGHT

( 2 ) THE VILLAGE

( 3 ) THE SELF

( 4 ) THE DECISIONS

( 5 ) THE FUTURE

About Peanut

The world's largest community for women through all stages of motherhood, because you were never meant to do this alone.

www.peanut-app.io
About Nuna

The home of thoughtfully designed baby gear for families through every stage of childhood, because parenthood was never meant to feel this complicated.

www.nunababy.com