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And the shame we feel for admitting it? Even worse. ⁠ ⁠ ✍️ Katherine Faulkner for Grazia UK

𝐖𝐞'𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐬. 💅 𝐈𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐃𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬, Peanut App 𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐬. 𝐋𝐞𝐭'𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲'𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐮𝐬. 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐩 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐕𝐏 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐭 𝐏𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐭 🥜 I love the days when I get to go to the office and work IRL with team Peanut, If I go to the office I get to do nursery drop off (after my partner wrestles my son into a toddler approved outfit) which means I get 15mins walking across Wanstead flats, it feels like another world. I love it. It’s early enough that I don’t feel the need to be all over slack, and I can just talk to my son about the aeroplanes, dogs and birds that he is thrilled to be spotting as we walk. Arrived at Peanut HQ to hang out with our London team before hopping straight on a stand up call. I spent the day working on exciting projects and bracing myself every time my phone rang, hoping it wouldn’t be the nursery. It wasn’t. What a win. Towards the end of the day I’m wrapping up emails and frantically refreshing my inbox waiting for my son’s daily update, what random skill/word/dance move will he have learnt today? How much of his lunch did he eat? All the stuff I didn’t realise I’d care so much about before he came along. Even when I go to the office I still like to be home for bedtime (assuming I’m not out with friends), so I rush home finishing tasks on the go, in order to get 90 mins with my son before he goes to sleep. It still feels so important not to miss out on too much, particularly after he’s spent the day at nursery. There is no such thing as having it all (IMO), just better balance. I need to work more efficiently in the hours I am fully focused on work and then make sure I’m fully focused on my son when he’s home from nursery and we do dinner and bedtime as a family. I have decided to take more responsibility for switching off when I am with him, although I’ve yet to kick the habit of checking our stats when I wake up (5:30 am 🫠 if you have that kind of toddler, you know). 👀 𝐖𝐡𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐧𝐞𝐱𝐭? 💬 𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬

Mothers deserve better, We deserve better. 📣 👇Tap the link below to read our research: ‘Where did the village go’ and watch the short film, Find Freckles. Nuna We explore what’s happened to the networks of support that were once foundational to family life, and how we can bring them back. Because the village isn’t gone, it’s just being rebuilt. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/euaGSuvF

"If my boss was a mum, I think she would just get it.” The missed nursery pick-up. The mid-meeting mute button, and camera off to calm my LOs Tantrum. The pressure to always be "flexible" with working hours. The performance is exhausting. We deserve to not feel like we're hiding parts of motherhood at work. We deserve better. 📣 Nuna

The type of support might’ve changed, but the need for support has NEVER changed 📣📣 Nuna

We asked 2,250 women in our community how supported they felt in motherhood, and here’s the truth: 👉Less than 18% of mothers feel fully supported 👉70% wish they had a partner who could take on more of the mental load 👉75% feel they have less of a village than their mother’s generation Lonely? You’re not alone.... Nuna Some responses have been anonymised at the respondent’s request 🔒 🔗 Tap the link below to read our research: ‘Where did the village go’ and watch the short film, Find Freckles. We explore what’s happened to the networks of support that were once foundational to family life, and how we can bring them back. Because the village isn’t gone, it’s just being rebuilt.#FindFreckles #ModernMotherhood #WhereDidTheVillageGo 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eRqQTHd4

YOU ARE EVERYTHING 🫶 When one mom reached out, the village answered, and we knew we had to shout about it. Thank you to every mama in our community who shows up, helps out, sends the “how are you, really?” messages, you make motherhood great ❤️ Follow the campaign on our socials Peanut App and Nuna and read the research here 👉https://lnkd.in/euaGSuvF

A toy, lost. A village, found. 🥹 Based on the experience of a Peanut user named Nicki, our short film shows how a homemade lost toy poster sparked a global search with women across platforms sharing videos, tips, and heartfelt pleas all to help reunite her toddler with Freckles. We know how incredible the motherhood community is, because every quiet act of care comes from women who instinctively understand what that mama might be feeling, and what she might be going through. It’s a reminder that even when motherhood feels isolating, no mom is ever truly alone. There’s always a village ready to show up. Freckles has been found. And so has the village. ❤️ Nuna .. 🔗 Tap the link below to read our research: ‘Where did the village go’ and watch the short film, Find Freckles. We explore what’s happened to the networks of support that were once foundational to family life, and how we can bring them back. Because the village isn’t gone, it’s just being rebuilt. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/euaGSuvF #FindFreckles #ModernMotherhood #WhereDidTheVillageGo

We got it from our mamas. 💅 Lots of the moms in our community celebrated Mother's Day this weekend, so we took a moment to ask some of Team Peanut what their moms or mother figures taught them. From celebrating achievements, big or small, to learning how to walk into any situation, these lessons passed down through generations continue to shape who we are both at work and in life. Every day is Mother's Day at Peanut, so we took the opportunity to thank the mamas who’ve shaped the lives of our team 🥜 What's one thing your mama taught you that you keep with you? 👇

This World Maternal Mental Health Day, we gave silence a face, and then we challenged it. Together with Tommee Tippee and the Maternal Mental Health Alliance (MMHA), Peanut launched a campaign to confront a truth we hear far too often in our community: loneliness is one of the most universal struggles in motherhood, and yet it’s the last one we want to talk about. We found that: 💜 94% of mothers experience loneliness.
💜 75% feel loneliness negatively affected their mental health. 💜 58% smile through it so no one asks if they’re okay.
💜 62% fear being a burden if they speak up. For centuries, mothers have been expected to carry on, to smile, to not make a fuss. So, this week, we took that forced smile (the universal mask of motherhood) and placed it where it couldn't be ignored. We added it to historic artworks of mothers. We marked statues across London with it. And we created a gallery in the iconic Speakers’ Corner. All to hold space for honest conversations about maternal mental health. Because forced smiles don’t tell the whole story. And it's time we did. To the mothers in our community: you’re not alone. You never were. Phoebe Corcoran Michelle Kennedy Fleur Watkins Anna Howes Henry Gibbons Martha Kenny Sophie Lucas Shona Garrett Sally Crossley Sarah Blohm Amy Tubb Justin Irwin #MaternalMentalHealth #PeanutApp #EndTheSilence #MotherhoodUnfiltered #LonelinessAwareness #BreakTheStigma