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Great day at the @inmo_irl Midwives conference. I

Great day at the @inmo_irl Midwives conference. I was there with @activeironworld and great to catch up with friends and colleagues from all over. Some brilliant talks too ❤️❤️

#loneliness 💔Early motherhood and parenthood

#loneliness

💔Early motherhood and parenthood can be really lonely!!

✍🏾I was so delighted to be invited to write an article for @belfasttelegraph recently, on how to combat the often lonely times that can occur in early motherhood and parenthood.

🔗Link to article in my bio

Connecting with other parents, talking through your feelings and asking for help sound so easy! But in the fog of new born babyhood- it can be so hard.

😳Feeling lost at sea and lonely are incredibly normal and so common yet we are useless at taking about it.

☝️Please don’t suffer in silence - be honest and do something to combat it. And as always if you are feeling lost- reach out .

👥Also, if you know of a new parent - #reachin and keep reaching ! it doesn’t just take a village; it takes all of us helping each other.

⭐️Be the hand that you might have needed; it’s the best gift you can offer

#midwifeadvice #lonliness #earlymotherhood #baby #earlyparenting

👻🎃#oichesamhain #happyhalloween #oícheshamh

👻🎃#oichesamhain #happyhalloween #oícheshamhna
I hope you and yours have lots of spooky fun 🤩

👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻

Happy Halloween 🎃

Happy Halloween 🎃

#betterdaysperiod is a campaign to highlight recen

#betterdaysperiod is a campaign to highlight recent research into how we experience our period health and what we could do to improve things.

🗣Message is clear - we need to all be having a bigger #menstruation conversation!

🙏🏻Thank you @activeironworld for such a great morning talking all things periods. Brilliant panel, lovely discussion in a really nice venue @theclarencehotel

🩸Great to hear from @hersport.ie :By educating around period health we can keep girls playing sport and make life easier for all of us. Boys should. NOT be excluded from the conversation either.

🫂We need to chat more about periods and woman’s health. So great to hear different peoples experiences. Well done Claire and Gretchen and all the @activeironworld team for such a great event.

#betterdaysperiod #period #periodhealth #menstruation

#Family ❤️I love being from #louth and I’m

#Family

❤️I love being from #louth and I’m so proud of #Dundalk #blackrocklouth

😍All of my siblings, niblings and Ofcourse Dad supreme , Bonzo live there. It will always be #home.

💎Watching Felix wishing grandad Bonzo happy birthday with his #bff #cousin Arthur would gladden the hardest heart.

✨Ultimately,we are carved, moulded and supported by our history and family. I feel eternally grateful that these are mine. Dad is the most positive guiding light, who has solo parented and grandparented us all since my mum died nearly 19 years ago. We have so much fun, love and the best chats: I don’t take a single moment for granted.

#sunday #love

💔Pregnancy Loss….. October is #pregnancyloss

💔Pregnancy Loss…..

October is #pregnancylossawarenessmonth

🗣Sending love to everyone affected- and there are just so many. People are affected, grieve, deal with and process loss in as many different ways as there are humans.

✨Often scars are invisibly held in hearts and sometimes stories are never told: that should never minimise the loss that is felt.

❤️Half of awareness is talking about it and I encourage anyone, whether their pregnancy loss occurred a long or short time ago, or in any permutation of the wonderful infographic from @infertilemillennial to talk about it. When we open up to each other a common thread of understanding is sown. The more compassionate conversations happen , the bigger, stronger and more supportive the better becomes.

👥We owe it to each other and to honour our losses by creating and holding safe space around this most painful grief.

🕯Sending light and healing to all the hearts that need it.

#pregnancylossawareness2022 #misscarriage #support

Happy birthday Bonzo ❤️ October is a busy bir

Happy birthday Bonzo ❤️

October is a busy birthday month in my family.

Happy birthday to my Dad Bonzo -a living legend and the best dad and grandad in the world. We love you 😘

🥳Happy birthday to my BAE @garretjflynn - you a

🥳Happy birthday to my BAE @garretjflynn - you are such an amazing dad, brilliant husband and best friend. Love you so much EVEN if you are now middle aged ❤️❤️❤️

What an amazing weekend @pregnancyandbabyfair in t

#fobfbrelfie2022 Tiny baby felix - massive boob,

#fobfbrelfie2022
Tiny baby felix - massive boob, grey nursing bra, my poor new mum face: this picture has it all 😂🤣 #nationalbreastfeedingweek is a great time to promote but also to highlight that this pic is one of a tiny few as my breastfeeding journey just didn’t go the way I hoped and I pumped exclusively for nearly 18 months! I love this pic for all it says and how funny it is in the lovliest way. EVERY feed is a win , even us ‘experts’ have the toughest journey. But I’m so glad I did it . Love to all the mums, breastfeeding, bottle feeding : all of us trying our best 🥹

❤️I’m so delighted to be speaking at the @pr

❤️I’m so delighted to be speaking at the @pregnancyandbabyfair in the RDS Simmons court. I’m being brought to you by @my_expertmidwife and @daisybelle.ie and will be chatting all about positive #birth and #recovery and simple tips to give you a great experience. I’ll be at the @daisybelle.ie stand afterwards right answer and one to one questions anyone might have.

🫣Even after all the years and all the talk I still get nervous and I love having a few friendly faces to talk to so please, please come to the talk and say #hello

The #pregnancyandbabyfair really is a great day out of you are pregnant, planning to be or have little humans already. It’s on Saturday and Sunday and you can catch me on the main stage at 1pm. See you there ❤️

#myexpertmidwife #midwifeadvice #speaker #birtheducation #talks #ireland

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