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The woman behind Womb Visions

I’m Diana.
Welcome to Womb Visions.

I’m originally from Bulgaria, and Denmark has been my home for over twenty years. It is where I met my partner, Ciprian, and where, at 44, I became a mother to our daughter, Angelina.

I’m curious by nature. I like to understand, to question, and to imagine possibilities—and then find a way to turn an idea into something real. Practical work and spiritual exploration have both had a place in my life, alongside a long-standing interest in women’s wellbeing and empowerment.

Before motherhood, those interests took me into nutrition and health, women’s fitness, menstrual cycle awareness, community, and independent projects. Becoming a mother brought new meaning to many of the questions I had been exploring for years.

Womb Visions grew from that meeting between the life I had already lived and the woman I was becoming.

Diana Z. Petrova, founder of Womb Visions.

Connecting with women through the body

My background includes a bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Health, alongside studies in marketing. I have always been interested in how knowledge becomes useful in everyday life: how it helps someone understand their needs, make choices, or feel more capable.

As a Bellyfit instructor, I taught holistic women’s fitness combining dance, strength training, and yoga. I loved the possibility of supporting women through movement—helping them connect with their bodies and build confidence in themselves.

Diana demonstrating a seated stretch during her Bellyfit teaching days.
From my days teaching Bellyfit—bringing together dance, strength training, and yoga.
Diana with participants in one of her menstrual cycle awareness circles.
One of the in-person menstrual cycle awareness circles I led before becoming a mother.

That interest continued through the in-person menstrual cycle awareness circles I led. These gatherings made room for learning, reflection, and conversations about experiences that women do not always have the opportunity to discuss openly.

Women’s empowerment has been an important part of this work. For me, it includes having the understanding and confidence to listen to your body, recognise your needs, and take an active part in decisions about your life.

During a health-education project in India, I also worked with women living with type 2 diabetes. Our educational work focused on nutrition, movement, and stress management. It gave me another way to bring my studies into practical work with women, within the circumstances of their everyday lives.

Diana participating in a health-education session in India.
During a health-education project in India, working with women on nutrition, movement, and stress management.

An independent, entrepreneurial spirit

I have always enjoyed turning ideas into projects. When an observation or an idea stays with me, I want to explore what I could do with it.

I enjoy bringing together reflection, intuition, and practical thinking: noticing what people might need, asking questions, and working out how an idea could become a project.

Alongside my independent work in women’s health and wellbeing, I co-founded Evolve Careers, a project concerned with employee wellbeing in corporate settings.

I also served as an advisory board member of Career Club, a Denmark-based professional network for women, supporting connection and mutual support in their working lives.

The settings were different, but I kept returning to questions about wellbeing, confidence, and possibility. What helps people feel supported? What gives them more room to use their abilities and shape their own direction?

I find satisfaction in taking those questions seriously enough to build something around them.

Diana seated in a chair, wearing a white blouse and black skirt

Learning to live with life’s paradoxes

Spiritual exploration was a significant part of my twenties and thirties. I was curious about different paths: yoga, tantra, tribal shamanic traditions, esoteric Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Hinduism.

What drew me towards them were questions about what lies beyond the visible—the dimensions of being human that we can feel or wonder about without always being able to explain. I wanted to explore questions of existence, meaning, and our relationship with something greater than ourselves.

Diana seated on a wooden bench in a flower garden

Across these different traditions, I encountered a recurring sense that there is more to life than we can fully understand or control. Over time, that became an important part of my own outlook.

We make choices. Our actions matter. And yet, so much of life unfolds beyond our choosing.

Learning to hold both truths has been one of the lasting gifts of that exploration. I have gradually become more comfortable with paradox: with the possibility that “yes” and “no” can both carry truth within the same question, and that an honest answer may contain a contradiction.

I still value clarity, but I feel less need to resolve every uncertainty. I am learning to leave room for different perspectives, for experiences that resist a simple explanation, and for my own understanding to change.

That openness is something I bring into Womb Visions. A woman can feel grateful and overwhelmed, certain about one part of her life and uncertain about another. I want there to be room for those experiences to exist together—and for each woman to explore their meaning through her own beliefs and language.

Diana, Ciprian and Angelina together in Thailand.
With Ciprian and Angelina during our month in Thailand, when she was six months old.

Finding my way to motherhood

Motherhood was not always part of the future I imagined for myself.

For years, I was unsure whether I wanted to become a mother. My feelings changed over time, and the path towards motherhood brought waiting, uncertainty, and deeply personal questions.

At 44, I became Angelina’s mother.

Questions I had explored through study, work, and reflection were now part of my everyday experience: how to care for a changing body, how to receive support, and how to recognise myself within a life that had changed so profoundly.

I brought a whole life into motherhood. I was also learning something entirely new.

Ciprian and I have been finding our way as parents together. When Angelina was six months old, we spent a month in Thailand as a family. That month is one of the memories from our first year as a family.

My experience is one reason I feel a particular connection with women approaching motherhood later in life. There can be so much history, hope, and uncertainty behind the simple words “I’m becoming a mother.”

How Womb Visions began

Womb Visions began to take shape when I was around nine months postpartum.

I was exploring what I could create from my background, interests, and lived experience. One observation kept returning: much of the support offered to mothers focuses on helping them meet their baby’s needs.

That support matters deeply. Alongside it, I wanted more space for another question:

What does the woman herself need?

Who is thinking about her recovery and emotional life? Her changing relationships? Her uncertainty, identity, and need for support? What helps her stay connected to herself while so much of everyday life is changing?

These questions became the starting point for Womb Visions.

Diana during pregnancy beneath an apple tree.
During my pregnancy with Angelina.

Over the following year, I explored ideas, wrote, designed, and gradually developed resources that bring practical preparation together with attention to the woman’s inner life.

Both matter to me: a practical plan for receiving care and a place to acknowledge how you feel; information that helps you prepare and room for the uncertainty that preparation cannot remove.

Today, Womb Visions is growing into a place of support across the path towards and through motherhood—from preconception and pregnancy to birth, postpartum, and the continuing changes of being a mother.

There is a special welcome here for women becoming mothers after 35, and especially after 40. That welcome comes from my own experience, while the wish to feel seen and supported reaches beyond any particular age.

At the heart of it is this belief:

Motherhood is not only about raising a child. It is also about the transformation of the woman who is raising that child.

What I’m learning and building now

Creating Womb Visions has also opened an unexpected direction in my life.

Over the past year, I have worked extensively with AI as a creative and practical collaborator—exploring ideas, developing resources, shaping the website, and turning early reflections into work I could share.

I have found the process fascinating, including the questions it raises about human judgement: what to keep, what to question, what needs more care, and whether something will actually serve the person it is intended for.

That experience has led me towards human–AI collaboration. Alongside Womb Visions, I am developing my skills and pursuing a professional direction in human-centred AI adoption and implementation.

I am interested in how people can use these tools thoughtfully, develop confidence with them, and bring their own understanding and judgement to the work.

It is another expression of my curiosity—and of my enjoyment in connecting new possibilities with practical needs.

Before the Miracle by Diana Z. Petrova.

A more personal chapter

If you would like to know more about my path to motherhood, I share the fuller story in Before the Miracle.

It is a memoir and reflective companion about becoming a mother after 40, with space for the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of that journey. It holds the more intimate experiences and turning points behind this introduction.

If something in my story feels familiar, you are welcome to explore it.

Discover Before the Miracle

You are welcome as you are

This is a glimpse of the life behind Womb Visions. I am still learning, still asking questions, and still discovering how my different experiences inform one another.

I wanted to share these parts of myself because I know that every woman arrives at motherhood with a life of her own: experiences, beliefs, ambitions, relationships, and questions that continue to matter.

My hope is that, here, you feel welcome to bring those parts of yourself too.

Thank you for taking the time to get to know me.

Diana