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Matrescia

You grew a human. You navigated maternity leave, sleepless nights, and an identity shift no one prepares you for. Now you're returning to work, and the financial, physical, and emotional weight of that is real.

Matrescia exists because that weight deserves proper support. Not a generic app. Something that holds your recovery, your finances, and your confidence — and meets you exactly where you are.

37%
pension gap for women
ÂŖ11k
avg annual childcare cost
80%
of mums report return anxiety
Your planning tools

Maternity Leave Income

Understand your take-home during leave and see the real income gap.

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Your Recovery

Rebuilding from the inside out

Your body did something extraordinary. These tools help you understand where you are, move safely, and eat well — all tailored to your birth, your stage, and your real life.

Postpartum Recovery Tracker

Tell us a little about your journey and we will show you exactly where you are in your recovery, what is happening with your body, and what to focus on next.

Guides & Resources

Everything you need to thrive —
not just survive

Actionable, evidence-based guides across every dimension of postpartum life. Each opens into a checklist and links to trusted sources.

The unfiltered guide

Things nobody warned you about

The complications, the side effects, the things that feel too embarrassing or alarming to Google at 3am. Explained clearly, without judgment.

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Why this exists

I built Matrescia because I needed it myself.

It started during pregnancy. I was overwhelmed by everything I didn't know and couldn't find in one place. How much maternity pay would I actually get? What should I be doing to prepare financially? What was normal and what wasn't? The information existed, but it was scattered across dozens of websites, apps, and NHS leaflets that never quite answered the question I was asking.

Transitioning into postpartum life revealed a new set of challenges: the 'unknown unknowns.' I kept discovering things I needed to know weeks or months after I needed to know them. The irony was exhausting; I was constantly researching, yet feeling like I was behind.

Information exists, but it doesn't move at the speed of motherhood. The burden was on me to find it at the right time. There was no single thread pulling together the physical, practical, and financial pieces of the puzzle as they became relevant. I was tired of looking for a map while I was already mid-journey.

So I built it. Everything here is designed to be as actionable as possible. Real tools, real numbers, real steps you can take today. Whether that is knowing exactly what your maternity pay looks like, understanding what your body is doing at week 14 postpartum, or finding a meal you can make with one hand in five minutes.

Matrescia is a one-stop shop for everything you need to navigate pregnancy, recovery, and the return to work. So you can spend less time searching and more time with the people who matter.

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