Modern motherhood is quietly breaking women — one unspoken expectation at a time. We’re told to bounce back, show up, smile through the grief, and somehow do it all without falling apart. But behind the curated feeds and swaddled babies lies a truth too many are afraid to say out loud: we are tired. And we are not okay. In this piece, I pull back the curtain on postnatal depletion, the global gaps in care, and what it really means to mother in a world that has forgotten to care for its mothers. This is not a complaint — it’s a call to awaken. Because no mother should be invisible in the very story she’s creating.

How one night changed everything—and why I’m fighting to rewrite the story of motherhood for women everywhere.