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Fionnuala Moran

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138 total appearances

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Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

So we've got that kind of stuff on the way as well.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

My mother-in-law has been knitting nonstop.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

So we've got lots of gorgeous little bits like that.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

So that's been a really lovely, sustainable element of it.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

Now the RSA with the car seats, that is one thing they generally don't recommend buying secondhand.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

You can, it's just that they do say you can't fully know then if it has been in a crash before.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

You want to know that you have all of the specific safety measurements met.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

So that is something that we are getting new.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

I think absolutely.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

And I think we are, thankfully now with sustainability becoming much more mainstreamed in Ireland, we're sort of moving away from that like, oh, are people asking because we can't afford it?

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

I think because we came from the famine historically and we were so, so poor here in Ireland for years, there was this real pride thing of, oh, we have to buy everything new.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

Whereas now we're kind of seeing like,

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

we've moved far enough beyond that, that yeah, we can absolutely lean into community, see what people have, see what they don't need.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

And as you say, people are only thrilled to get rid of the bits as well.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

I have one pal who's pregnant as well at the same time, but won't be due until a little bit later than us.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

So even all the birth bits, she's like, don't buy anything.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

We have everything.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

Like people don't want you wasting your money on anything you don't need to be at this time.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

It is a mad expensive time of life, no matter how sustainably you do it.

Today with David McCullagh
Fionnuala Moran’s sustainable pregnancy journey – part 2

So yeah,