Matrescence

Resources, information and support groups in the UK championing #matrescence (becoming a #mother). Brought to you by @mothersuncoverd Petition on website

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Well, someone obviously told @itsanitarani the correct pronunciation of #matrescence while they were trailing the podcast @BBCWomansHour.
It’s a word we’ve been advocating for @MothersUncoverd for over 8 years. You can look us up here too @MatrescenceUK & https://t.co/CJUSUpmFt1

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

It was a privilege to speak at the #MaternityAPPG chaired by @MichelleWelshMP this week. A powerful discussion, with impassioned pleas from those working with #harmedmums to bring real change and righteous anger from the women themselves who’ve had devastating experiences.

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Booking link for tickets for our @MothersUncoverd @livestockarts charity fundraiser!
At The Walrus pub #Brighton

https://t.co/fQRgs7rxJH

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Anyone identify…? #Christmas is magical… and absolutely chaotic. If you’ve ticked even one of these, you’re in good company.
Our @MothersUncoverd groups exist for moments just like this. The tears, the laughs,
the overwhelm and everything in between.

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Fabulous talking to @MichelleWelshMP about the need to centre the woman’s experience in maternity care; investing to tackle the worrying rates of birth trauma & to champion lived experience groups that are so beneficial for mothers’ mental health & wellbeing in their matrescence

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

At the #LabourConference2025 I will be attending this roundtable event bringing together experts, parliamentarians, campaigners and clinicians to discuss maternal mental health services in the UK.
My focus, as ever, to shine a spotlight on the need for peer-led services.

[Mothers Uncovered ®️ @MothersUncoverd]

This is what #maternalmentalhealth charities and organisations struggle with on a daily basis.
It’s a very tough funding landscape out there, we know that. Yet #mothers health is forever seen as less important than that of the child or the family as a whole.

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Calling #Brighton and #Hove mothers!
@MothersUncoverd new peer-led drop-in for mums (come by yourself or bring your baby/toddler) at the fabulous #PuzzleBored shop on New Road. Come by yourself/with your baby or toddler. Pictures from this week’s session https://t.co/5OdMFVJHeU

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

For years as director of @MothersUncoverd, I’ve pointed out the correlation between parental mental health & impact on children, but investment is never made. This piece doesn’t state it: it starts with #Mothers, they need postnatal support @wesstreeting

https://t.co/o4LsYcbomB

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Gwen Adshead on @BBCRadio4 #Reithlectures about how trauma causes violence. She explains how neglect leads to inadequate sense of self, this relating to children of course, but also applicable to #mothers: often regarded as baby vessels, with little attention paid to their needs.

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Swanking it up at the #SocEntAwards24

[Mothers Uncovered ®️ @MothersUncoverd]

For many #mothers, giving birth is more than a physical act - it’s an emotional and spiritual journey, leaving a lasting imprint of pride, joy, happiness and sometimes even fear or sorrow. These memories become part of who we are.
#matrescence #mothersuncovered
#motherhood

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Here we go again. Birth rate fallen to its lowest levels according to #ONS. Reasons: failing maternity wards, #birthtrauma, lack of postnatal support for new mothers, prohibitive cost of childcare. @MothersUncoverd we’ve seen it coming. https://t.co/wXzIYJlZf0

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Just listening to a piece on @BBCRadio4 about birth rates in the UK - a report from the ONS showing deaths now outnumber births. Is anyone surprised?! I write this as CEO of a struggling charity supporting #mothers @MothersUncoverd that has received yet another funding knockback

[Mothers Uncovered ®️ @MothersUncoverd]

I've read @MMHAlliance report into the postcode lottery of #maternal mental health care with interest & sadness, that so many #mothers are suffering. There is no specialist provision listed in #Brighton or Sussex. #MothersUncovered has saved lives
https://t.co/GF9uOnPWVr

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

@BBCr4today @BBCWomansHour @Emmabarnett @MatrescenceUK @MothersUncoverd https://t.co/PUJHJM0J8b

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

As director of @MothersUncoverd I am also not surprised that the rulings of the #OckendenReview haven’t been implemented. We meet #mothers all the time deeply traumatised by the birth of their child. Prolapses, haemorrhage, cracked pelvises are some of the horrific experiences

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

Thank you to @lucyjones for mentioning @MothersUncoverd and many other fantastic initiatives/groups in her excellent piece for @guardian about the loneliness of new #motherhood & #matrescence
Loneliness and isolation continue to be major reasons as to why mothers are struggling.

[Maggie Gordon-Walker @mgordonwalker]

This morning I heard some of Ashleigh’s story before we record her @secretmotherpod next week. A harrowing and sadly all too common tale of #birthtrauma and inadequate care, in pregnancy, birth and #matrescence, made worse by the enforced isolation of Covid.

[Mothers Uncovered ®️ @MothersUncoverd]

Mothers Uncovered supports mothers in #matrescence (the transition to ##motherhood). Our peer-led, creative support groups encourage honest conversations about the reality of motherhood. We started in 2008 and have supported over 3000 women.