on a night that seemed to have no end.

The night I realised I was not alone

It was three in the morning.
My youngest, just one year old, was sleeping no more than an hour at a time.
My eldest, three years old, had woken up crying from a dream.
And I was holding one of them and the other was calling for me — and I was crying too.

It was not the first night like this.
But it was the night I understood something that changed everything.
That I did not need to keep trying to manage everything the same way.
It was not about my children.
It was about me.

I was surviving… but I was not living.
And, for the first time, instead of asking myself "how do I do all this?", I asked something else:
"How can I do this in a lighter way?"

Who I was before

My name is Ana. I am 34 years old, mother of two little ones.

Before becoming a mother, I thought I knew what tired meant. I worked in consulting, slept eight hours, went to the gym, finished books.

Then B was born. And then D.
And time, that, stopped being mine.

I became a mother and, for a long time, stopped being everything else.

What was missing

I looked for books. I looked for Instagram accounts. I looked for groups.
I found a lot of good things — and a lot of things that made me feel worse.

What I needed was a place where someone honestly told me it is okay not to manage.
That love does not erase the tiredness.
That motherhood is not just a calling — it is work.
And that this is, at the same time, the most beautiful work I have ever done… even on days when I cry hidden in the bathroom.

Why this exists

Entre Mães was born from the conversation I wished I had had — and never did — when I lost myself again and did not know how to find my way back.

It is a space for mothers who want to live motherhood with more lightness and less pressure.

• real routines (not Pinterest ones)
• recipes that work even on Thursdays at 7pm
• reflections that do not make us feel inadequate
• and a community that reminds us, every day, that we are not alone

Because between mothers, there is always room for one more.