Surprise new chapter in sports presenter Erin Molan’s career
Sports presenter Erin Molan has used her experience of parenting her daughter Eliza to create a new business venture, and she’s been given plenty of support from her network of celebrity mums who have also faced challenges with their babies.
Confidential
Don't miss out on the headlines from Confidential. Followed categories will be added to My News.
There was no fancy launch event. Just a simple Instagram post that signified a new chapter in Erin Molan’s career. She’s become an entrepreneur.
The Channel 9 sports broadcaster and mother-of-one will launch a new line of button down baby singlets, which are being praised as “game changing,” on the weekend.
Molan explained that when her daughter Eliza, now two, was born she hated having singlets go over her head.
“She would go from a perfectly settled bubba to distressed the second we tried to get a singlet over her head,” she wrote, adding she ended up taking singlets to her local tailor and getting zippers and velcro put on them. “It seriously changed our lives!”
After discovering many mothers experienced the same trauma when putting on singlets, she decided to patent her designs and now, two years later, she is about to launch the Babi Burrito — a singlet for babies which has studs down the front, meaning it does not need to be put on over the head.
Fans were quick to congratulate Molan and her midwife business partner on the idea, including mothers with experience of premature babies or those with special needs.
Channel 9 sports presenter Sam Squiers, who gave birth to daughter Imogen in 2017 at 32 weeks, was quick to comment on how Molan’s creation would have helped parents such as herself.
“It’s perfect for premmies too who have cords everywhere! We struggled when Immi was on home oxygen for months as we couldn’t put singlets over her head with all the tubes.”
In her tweet, Molan said she hoped the singlets would “make life a little easier for parents!”.
She said a percentage of the profits from the sale of the singlets would go to charities including Bowel Cancer Australia and Tresillian.