Mothers’ nutritional needs increase during pregnancy and in the months that follow. Yet this is often the period when eating well becomes most difficult.

This isn’t a question of knowledge or ability. Many mothers know how to cook well and have fed themselves and others with care for years. What changes is capacity. Time fragments, attention is constantly pulled elsewhere, and meals are often eaten last, standing up, interrupted, cold, or sometimes not at all.

These personal realities sit within a wider context. Mothers are expected to absorb competing demands; caregiving, paid work, emotional labour and home-making. Often without the practical support needed to sustain them.

What Mums Eat began as a photographic project documenting how mothers actually eat. The images make visible something widely experienced but rarely acknowledged.

From that observation came a simple question: what would it look like to support mothers’ nourishment properly?

What Mums Eat is developing a platform that begins with food and grows outward; nourishing meals, practical guidance and support designed around the realities of early motherhood.