Peanut App

Um, and if you're a mommy, go and check out the Village Fund.

It's on peanut.app.io.

Michelle, what a pleasure.

Thank you so much.

When was the first time you heard matrescence?

I actually heard about it a little while ago when Michelle Battersby, who, uh, runs Peanut-

Mm-hmm

... which is a kind of a female or, or a mother, um, app, petitioned for, um, the dictionary to put mat- matrescence.

Um, and about, I'd say a year ago, I noticed on my socials a fantastic, uh, event that had been created at the Houses of Parliament by the Motherless Mothers, and it was their first anniversary on Motherless Awareness Day.

Um, they hosted an event and had created a huge research report, actually in partnership with Peanut, um, to understand the mental and mental wellbeing impacts of motherless mothers.

A third of new mothers are motherless, um, in the UK and in the US.

Um, they're five times more likely to suffer with postnatal depression.

There are like social networking apps for new mums or mums-to-be.

In particular, there's one called Peanut, which I recommend.

And so you can pick up mum friends.

Also, looking into your council, what's available in terms of like feeding cafes, baby groups.