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Your Birth Biz, Baldoyle (2026)

20/10/2026

Let’s have a little fun!

Now, be honest. How many fingers did you have left up?

If the answer is 1 or above let us know which one(s) you’ve never done! 🦹‍♀️

19/10/2026

You are your set of beliefs. You act and produce outcomes based on them. So what could change if you believed something different?

19/10/2026

New Podcast Epsiode Out This Wedsnesday

Your Business Should Fit Into Your Life, Not the Other Way Round: Why my social care background shapes how I coach birthworkers

Make sure you are following The Pregnancy & Postnatal Entrepreneurs Collective Podcast on your favourite platform so you don't miss it. Also on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/

16/10/2026

Personal development is never ‘done’.

I’m a social care worker and spent my 5 years when studying doing reflective journals. At work I had monthly supervision. When I trained as an antenatal educator more reflective journals and I’ve spend so much of my business learning time on personal development.

I do take breaks from it being my focus however and it’s actually probably been well over a year since I’ve gone deep in it but I’ve been feeling the calling back and I remnwrwd this part of a conversation I had with Bronagh from on the podcast and how always questioning is vital for growth.

I’m about to embark on a formal self exploration with a world renowned coach that I was actually going to turn down initially because for a moment I thought ‘sure I’ve done all that work already what will I learn?’ but then I reminded myself the work is never done.

If you’d like to hear more of my conversation with Bronagh check out Episode 67: ‘The Birth of a Business: How to turn a Personal Need into a Product’ of the Pregnancy & Postnatal Entrepreneurs Collective podcast wherever you get your podcasts and also on YouTube.

15/10/2026

Women in Business Matter

Today I had the pleasure of attending the National Women’s Enterprise Day in Dublin, hosted this year by at the

The day started with some early chats and headshots (really hoping I like them!). The event was hosted by the always amazing who has MC’d many an event I’ve been at and always does a great job.

First up was some storytelling and fun interactive networking and relationship building facilitated by Danica from Prism. Then a great panel discussion with .ie and hearing all about their business journeys, the ups and downs! And a keynote speech from Jen .

So much of the day was inspiring and worth sharing but space is limited!

Something that stuck out to me was when Sophie from Chimac was saying how a pitch where she had no idea what she was doing in comparison to everyone else on stage landed them Selfridges as a supplier and Anna pointed out that Sophie is so likeable and can tell her story that that is probably a huge part of it.

Then Jen from very honestly spoke about all her mistakes in business without sugar coating or making out ‘it’s what made her who she is today’ and all those cliches. The other thing I liked is that she didn’t shy away from the hard work she has put in and is putting in. She said she asked her wife and family to let her be an Olympian - give me 4 years to work on this like an athlete working towards the Olympics. That struck me because no one would question someone sacrificing to work towards that goal so why does it need to be different for any big goal?

Also shoutouts to some of the amazing women I met building their businesses in this crazy world fashion designer, Katrina Klier from Sage Strategy, Belen who is getting started, Olivia from in Donabate, , and Valentia from

Also got to catch up with (although briefly!) .shilling and

And I know I’m missing a few people there so sorry if I’ve left you out. Say hello below!

14/10/2026

How woo are you?

My background is as a social care worker with a research Masters in Criminology. When I qualified as an antenatal educator, I was all about evidence-based practice. I still am. I teach the best international evidence because we see what happens when hospitals don’t.

But somewhere between becoming a parent and becoming a birthworker, I went (too far?) all in on the evidence and I suppressed the part of me that knows not all wisdom has to be fully explained (yet).

(But I’m Irish afterall and I never lost my connection to nature, and I’d never dare interfere with a fairy fort. No science needed for that one -IYKYK!)

Manifestation and visualisation have been part of my business practice for years. But as I get older, I feel a pull back towards more of the ancient wisdom, more of what our (mostly female) ancestors have taught us: the power of intention and action, of ritual, of nature and the universe. It’s a draw towards what some consider woo woo but many experience as reality.

*About the tree in the middle of the road: that’s a fairy tree in Co. Clare, Ireland. The M18 motorway was built around it rather than knocking it down as planned, because workers found their machines not working and refused to upset the fairies. Seriously you don’t want to bring the wrath of Irish fairies on you, they are no Tinkerbell.

So, how woo woo are you in your birthwork practice, business or life in general? 👇

Comment with a number from 1 to 10 (1 = give me the peer-reviewed paper only, 10 = I’ve already cleansed the house this week and am preparing my Samhain altar).

And if you’re a birthworker who’s been hiding the woo in your business because it doesn’t feel “professional,” I’m really interested to hear about it.

08/10/2026

When your body gives you a signal to stop and you don’t listen

I’m 44 years old and have a full and busy life. I run two businesses, volunteer for my local breastfeeding support charity, have 2 school age children, one with additional needs, who both have busy sports schedules and I’m part of a health and fitness programme where I try to work out 3-4 times a week and keep on top of my movement, nutrition and sleep.

While I’ve had some physical and mental challenges in my life I’m not typically a person who gets ‘sick’ often.

In April this year I gave up a number of other volunteer jobs to focus on my second business (this one).

Shortly after retiring from my volunteer jobs I joined a programme to help me grow the business and got stuck in. This culminated in a launch in early June. After it was done I started getting ready for the next step. I’m a doer.

In early July I was hospitalised with a mystery (at the time) condition. I wasn’t feeling ill but the physical manifestation of the condition (a finger that randomly turned completely purple without injury) caused enough concern to keep me in hospital for tests for a week. A hard stop on my plans.

When I was given the all clear and discharged I went home and after a couple of days rest got stuck in again. It was also school holidays at this point so things were actually a little easier with less early mornings and less sport commitments.

Two weeks later we went on our annual extended family holiday which was lovely. We got home and I got stuck in again.

There were more social events over the second month of school holidays - August including a good friends ‘big’ birthday and some nights away glamping with my friends and our children. At around the same time there was some very public controversy that involved one of my previous volunteer organisations and while I was no longer directly involved I found the whole situation very stressful because what was being said and because of how my former colleagues and friends were being treated.

At the end of August my eldest started secondary school. Something he was not looking forward to and that caused him, and by extension me, a fair bit of stress. The day he started I was diagnosed with shingles. I was also gearing up for another launch.

As far as shingles goes it was a pretty mild dose. I was able to continue on pretty much as normal part from maybe two days. I was on antivirals for 5 days that affected my urinary tract system by causing crystals that made it feel like I had a UTI/kidney infection.

A week after completing the antivirals I was still experiencing symptoms and attended the dr. I had developed a bacterial UTI most likely facilitated by the same the crystals can cause damage in the UT system. I was given antibiotics and told urine would be sent to the lab and I’d get a call back.

By the time I’d finished the antibiotics symptoms had reduced but I’d received no call. I was firmly in launch mode, doors had opened and I was on it, so didn’t think too much about it. Within 3-4 days I was bedridden with a severe kidney infection. It was Sunday. I had another event Monday evening and doors close Tuesday.

I contacted my doctor first thing Monday and was informed the labs showed a bacteria resistant to the antibiotics I was given so was given a prescription for another antibiotic. (Would have been helpful if they’d called the week before to tell me that!). I started the antibiotics that morning and ran my event that night. Doors closed Tuesday, I had some fulfilment follow up Wednesday morning and I gave myself the rest of Wednesday & Thursday ‘off’ to rest.

Thursday night we had a family fun night at my youngest school that I needed to bring him to and Friday I headed off two hours from home for a Confernce which I thought would be a bit of a rest when there - and it was in a way but by Saturday afternoon I was shaking again. I plowed on. Got home Sunday night and took Monday ‘off’ to recover. Back into it Tuesday. That was 9 days ago.

The weekend in between we had some social events. Definitely overdid it by attending both but by Tuesday this week I finally got back to the gym after almost a month of hardly working out at all.

But that night I had an IBS/FODMAPS flare. I had struggled with this for about 4 years but eventually managed it with diet and over the past about 10-12 months was back eating almost as normal but tbh didn’t think to much of this discomfort and thought it would pass quickly. The following morning (yesterday/wednesday) I went and got my nails done with my mam and she was asking how I was following the shingles and the UTI and I said I thought I was finally recovered. She told me not to overdo it.

Then IBS pain again yesterday evening barely slept at all last night and now I’m back in bed. It’s feels more than a flare now. When I got back into bed at 8am after kids when to school I fell asleep. This is unheard of for me no matter how sick I am. I feel almost like I have a hangover and am wondering what else might be going on. My head is sore and fussy, my tinnitus is loud and I’m oh so tired.

So all in all I’m wondering is it finally time to listen. Is it finally time to stop? But for how long?

I’ve lost a lot of lactation income this year (which is still my main source of income) from all of this and from focusing on the coaching business so it’s hard to consider taking proper time off - and not for a busy holiday, *just* to recover properly.

I’ve an online conference to attend the next two days. Had planned to lock myself in my office for the two days but maybe I’ll do it from bed instead. Does that count as rest? I think it does. Better than the office chair anyway. But what about next week? Can I block off my calendar *again* and continue to loose income?

I don’t have everything figured out. But if I were my own coaching client I know exactly what I’d be telling her.

Let’s find out if I am willing to listen.

07/10/2026

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