On paper, maternity in the EU looks like a success story: survival is almost guaranteed. In practice, pregnancy, birth, and the first year after birth are still shaped by untreated symptoms, fragmented care, and experiences that quietly change if and when families consider another child.

This report is grounded in what we’ve learned from supporting more than 50,000 families over the past two years, and in the decades of experience our team brings to this field. It is dedicated to every woman who has ever carried, birthed, and healed — in joy, in love, in uncertainty, in change, in pain, in grief, and in all the quiet in-between.

For the late nights and early mornings, the feeds and the false alarms, the calendars full of appointments, the doubts that catch you off guard, and the love that meets you right after.

Your strength, your power, and your resilience are unmatched. You shape the future from the very start.