About Us

Entering motherhood was nothing like I expected.

There were the blissful highs and the dreaded lows, accompanied by a painful desire to never leave my newborn’s side. On top of this, I was learning to accept the changes to my body, my thinking, my priorities and most surprisingly, my capacity to function as a human.

Throughout that first year of motherhood, I found myself wondering how I had made it into my thirties without understanding just how monumental this transition is. I was completely astounded by how little was shared about the journey of becoming a mother, particularly about what was happening beneath the surface of being so loved-up with my child.

I needed to understand. Why did I feel so hyper-anxious all the time? Was it normal to feel like I was in survival mode while being safely at home? Was it normal to be completely obsessed with my child, to the point of avoiding my own self-care? Would I ever feel energised again?

This curiosity led me to realise that modern motherhood is a new paradigm women are navigating. One that often means lugging themselves through the trenches of isolation, emotional exhaustion, mineral depletion and radical shifts in identity, often without understanding why they feel so different.

Studying the world of Matriatrics (maternal health) and Matrescence (the transition into motherhood) I discovered that these muddy trenches could be far less challenging if this transition were better understood and honoured by society, if the knowledge was passed down through generations, and if we knew how to truly replenish and care for ourselves postpartum

I thought I was simply trying to understand what was happening to me, but what I discovered was a much bigger story about motherhood. And it left me with so much I wanted to share.

Merci Maman was born from that curiosity — and from a belief that mothers deserve to understand the transformation they are living through, not simply be expected to endure it.