Chaos with Karen and Ciara

This week on Chaos with Karen and Ciara, we're answering some of the questions parents ask us most often. Karen shares practical, evidence-based advice on: • The difference between gagging and choking • When a fever is a cause for concern • When to manage your baby's illness at home and when it's time to seek medical attention Alongside your parenting questions, we're also chatting...

This week on Chaos with Karen and Ciara, we're honoured to be joined by Karina, who shares her extraordinary and deeply personal story. Born in an Irish mother and baby home and adopted as a baby, Karina opens up about her journey of discovering her identity, meeting her birth mother, and the emotions that came with reconnecting with her past. She also shares her path to becoming a mother hers...

This week on Chaos with Karen and Ciara, we're catching up on all the usual chaos of family life, from travelling with children to the realities of trying to switch off when life feels busier than ever. We chat about the highs (and lows!) of family holidays, navigating airports with little ones, and those unforgettable encounters with drunk passengers that can make travelling even more stressful t...

This week on Chaos with Karen and Ciara, we're joined by Aoife MacNeill, pre and postnatal personal trainer and mum to three-year-old twin girls. Aoife shares her journey from finding out she was expecting twins to navigating pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and the realities of raising two babies at the same time. We chat about the shock of a twin pregnancy, the joys and challenges of twin motherh...

In the latest episode of Chaos with Karen and Ciara, we chat all things parenting chaos, motherhood, and nursing life 🤍 Karen reflects on the birth of her third baby as he turns eight this week, sharing how alone she felt during her hospital stay and why maternity services need to change to better support families — including allowing partners to stay 24 hours, as they do in many other countries....

In this episode, we sit down with Audrey O'Connor to hear her powerful story of burnout, people pleasing, and the courage it took to completely change direction. From a career as a quantity surveyor to a life centred around astrology, sound healing, and nervous system regulation, Audrey shares how burnout became the catalyst for deep personal transformation. We talk about the pressures so many of...

This week on Chaos with Karen and Ciara, we’re chatting about the realities of motherhood that don’t get talked about enough — from solo parenting and mental health, to getting back into sport and exercise after having babies. We have an honest conversation about prolapse, recovery after birth, and the pressure many women feel to “bounce back” physically and mentally after becoming mothers. We als...

This week on Chaos with Karen and Ciara, we’re joined by a very special guest — Ciara’s husband, Ed. We chat about what it’s really like being married to Ciara, raising four daughters, and navigating the chaos of modern family life as a dad. Ed also shares his perspective on birth, breastfeeding, fatherhood, and the madness that comes with trying to juggle work, parenting and family life. As a kit...

This week on Chaos with Karen and Ciara, we’re chatting about a mix of everything that comes with this stage of life — the overwhelm, the mental load, and the constant juggle. We talk honestly about perimenopause and how it can show up in ways you don’t expect, from anxiety to feeling completely overstimulated. We also get into the guilt (and nerves) around going away without your children, solo t...

This week on Chaos with Karen and Ciara, it’s a very real, very honest catch-up on the everyday chaos of life with four kids. From trying to get everyone out the door in the morning, to the state of the car (which is a whole story in itself), this episode is full of the kind of moments every mum will recognise. We chat about: the madness of school runs and getting four children organised those day...

In this episode of Chaos with Karen and Ciara, we’re chatting all things baby sleep — from normalising what’s actually typical, to sharing our own real-life experiences (the messy, honest kind). We talk about co-sleeping, the pressure to “fix” sleep, and why sometimes doing nothing is exactly what’s needed. We’re also joined by Holistic Sleep Coach Vicky Haugh, who brings her expert, gentle perspe...

Welcome back to Chaos with Karen & Ciara — where nothing is off-limits and life is always a little bit messy ✨ In this episode, we’re chatting all things frazzled — from those days where everything feels like a juggle to our very honest chaos confessions and some seriously relatable mom fails (because we’ve all been there 🙃). We also dive into the Oscars, share our thoughts, and of course… g...

Welcome to the very first episode of  Chaos with Karen & Ciara  — a conversational pod where the chat goes everywhere and nowhere all at once! We kick things off with chats about parenting with hangovers, intrusive thoughts,  matrescence and balancing chaos of parenthood! We get into matrescence and the emotional whirlwind that comes with it, sharing the real, unfiltered side of it all. It’s chaot...

Episode 1 - No matter what your background, we are mums first!

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