Louise May

You know, we're just there with her.

And it definitely in the hundreds.

But I suppose I didn't have a hugely long career in the labour ward.

I was in the emergency department for quite a long time.

And, you know, some babies kind of can come along when the baby decides it's time.

It's time.

So definitely in the hundreds.

But I suppose in terms of the women and the families I've supported over the 20 years, I'm in the rotunda.

Thousands and thousands.

I did, yes.

So I...

I had kind of loved kind of acting and drama and things like that.

And I'd gone to UCD to do arts, thinking that I'd kind of weave on my way onto the stage somehow.

Wasn't to be.

I leaned into the party life a little bit and I dropped out and I kind of panicked.

And I remember my mum, Lord Rester, my mum...

unfortunately passed away in her mid 40s and she used to tell me she used to say you'd be a lovely nurse you'd be lovely and I'd be like not at all I'm destined for the stage or whatever but when I dropped out of UCD I kind of panicked a little bit and I had nurses in my family Annette and Anne and

They just said, you need to present your dad with a plan because, you know, you've dropped out of college.

So I just said, Dad, I'm really sorry I've dropped out of college, but I'm going to be a nurse.

And Dad said, all right, OK, yeah, you'd be lovely.