Carrie Bickmore opens up about going back to work post-baby

Carrie Bickmore has opened up about going back to work on The Project just before her maternity leave comes to an end today.

The 38-year-old has admitted that she has ‘mixed emotions’ about returning to her seat on the Channel 10 panel tonight, after taking the last seven months off to spend time with her new baby and her family.

But Carrie, who gave birth to her adorable daughter, Adelaide, in December, is looking forward to being able to “get a coffee and being able to drink it before it gets cold, and for the silence of a 20-minute ride into work”, as she revealed in an interview with the Sydney Morning Herald.

"But I'll be really honest, I have huge mixed emotions about it,” she continued.

“Just being able to have dinner with my family has been incredible. I haven't had that for 10 years, you know?"

Yesterday, Carrie was clearly getting nostalgic about the beginning of her maternity leave last November, posting an adorable photo to her Instagram account.

“I love this pic so much,” she said about the snap, which showed her son, Ollie, sitting talking to her and her daughter, Evie, carrying a tea towel.

“The start of my maternity leave 8 months ago. I was so tired, so sore and just so happy to be home. I am gonna sound old now but it’s all going tooo fast. Slow down life!!! ( I am going to be so sad when Ollie no longer wants to sit around and chat,” she wrote.

Carrie has been very candid about life juggling a newborn and her two older kids, Ollie, 11 and Evie, three.

In an Instagram post in January, just one month after welcoming Adelaide, The Project host went through a checklist of things she’d experienced and unsurprisingly, sleep wasn’t one of them.

She listed arguments, feeling overwhelmed, mastitis and plenty of tears, as well as her “struggle with existing three-year-old” among some of the more difficult things she’s had to negotiate.

But of course “cuddles” and “bursting with love and gratitude” also made the cut.

Less than three months after giving birth to Adelaide, Carrie returned to her job on the Hit Network with Tommy Little.

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