![Baby business booms: Jade and Nixon Branley and Haley and Jaxon Smith are all products of Edwina (and Polly) Sharrocks Birth Beat startup. Photo: Gareth Gardner Baby business booms: Jade and Nixon Branley and Haley and Jaxon Smith are all products of Edwina (and Polly) Sharrocks Birth Beat startup. Photo: Gareth Gardner](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/HrDAEeD6sDPPsPg33AG2PJ/27dfe315-21db-44c7-8f48-1f11936b2fc6.jpg/r0_0_3000_2079_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
Like a bun in the oven, Edwina Sharrocks Birth Beat business keeps rising, as she yet again prepares to pitch to a board of potential investors.
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Just weeks after signing a deal with health fund giants HCF, Mrs Sharrock is one of four women in the running for a $35,000 cheque at the Mums and Co Powered Pitch competition in Sydney on Monday.
The four ‘Mothers of Invention’ have already beaten a field of 70 to make the final boardroom showdown, which not only includes the big cheque, but also the chance of future funding to further develop their products.
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“It has all just been a real whirlwind since we launched online last November,” Mrs Sharrock said.
“The whole reason I started Birth Beat was to give women all over Australia access to choices and a better birthing experience, so anything that helps me do that is really exciting.”
Mrs Sharrock is up against some stiff competition, with a digital literacy solution program, as well as a product that helps parents track children at busy events, and a cloud based employee giving program all in the running.