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Carrie Bickmore returns after 'incredibly hard' maternity leave
Carrie Bickmore has returned to our TV screens hosting The Project and she’s opened up about her maternity leave experience in her typically candid manner.
The new mum took eight months off hosting The Project after welcoming her third child Adelaide in December last year, but it turns out the third time as a new mum wasn’t quite the charm.
Co-hosts Waleed Aly, Steve Price and Peter Helliar could barely contain their excitement at the return of the news program’s staple personality, and as it turns out she couldn’t have been happier to be back.
“Coming to work’s easy man,” she laughed, admitting that this time new motherhood had been ‘full on’.
The returning host was battling a ‘mum cold’, but despite a slightly raspy voice, insisted she couldn’t have been happier.
“Don’t let the croaky voice or the snotty nose fool you, I am in bliss,” she laughed, adding that she had ‘sent SOS in distress’ to her co-hosts.
A tough gig
Clarifying her jokes, she explained the gritty reality that was her first few months with a tricky newborn.
“It has been so incredibly hard,” she admitted.
“Our little girl had really bad reflux - which I had no idea what that was - and that made the first few months very hard because we couldn’t put her down at all, and we didn’t know why she was crying.”
Carrie has been widely praised for removing the filter from new motherhood, sharing raw, emotional and relatable images to her Instagram and for consistently speaking as openly as she did last night.
The Project host spoke candidly about many experiences, from the first couple of weeks at home with baby Adelaide, to her highly anticipated return to work.
Adelaide is Carrie’s second child with partner Chris Walker, with whom she shares daughter Evie, three.
She also has an older son Ollie, 11, with her late first husband Greg Lange, who lost his battle with brain cancer in 2010.
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