Every mother deserves a village. But for one in three, the person who should be at the centre of it, her mom, is gone.

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new moms is motherless

85%

said motherhood had reopened their grief

74%

said health professionals never asked about maternal support

This research exposes what’s long been ignored in maternal health: the fact that grief doesn’t end with birth, it deepens. Too many mothers are left isolated and misdiagnosed by a system that never asks the simplest question: “Do you have maternal support?”

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“When I became a mum, I thought I could outlove the grief, that if I poured everything into my baby, I wouldn’t feel the ache of doing it without my own mum. But the truth is, grief doesn’t fade when new life begins; it grows. It sits beside the joy. This campaign exists because no woman should have to mother in silence. We’re finally recognising the invisible struggles of mothering after loss.”

Louise Kirby-Jones |

Co-founder, The Motherless Mothers