Your brain rewires. Your identity shatters. Your body transforms.

The dictionary has no word for it.

Matrescence, the complete biological, psychological, and emotional transformation of becoming a mother, is the largest neurological reorganization of the adult human brain ever observed.

It was coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael in 1973.

53 years later, it's still not in the Oxford English or Merriam-Webster dictionaries. Your phone's keyboard doesn't even recognize it.

When we don't name what happens to mothers, we don't study it. We don't fund it. We don't support it.

67% of mothers have never heard the term matrescence. They go through one of the most destabilizing experiences of their lives thinking they're broken. Thinking they're alone. Thinking something is wrong with them.

There's nothing wrong with them. There's something wrong with the dictionary.

Sign this petition. Demand that Oxford, Merriam-Webster, and tech companies add matrescence.

It's time language caught up with lived experience.

It's time to GAF about mothers.