Sian Welby has candidly admitted she finds it ‘hard to juggle work and motherhood’ as she opened up on the pressure of being the ‘breadwinner’.
The Capital Breakfast and This Morning presenter, 39, gave birth to her daughter Ruby in June 2024, whom she shares with fiancé Jake Beckett.
Sian admitted she sticks to a ‘work limit’ to ensure she can be home with her baby daughter and not miss out on any of her childhood.
‘I did the radio show and one day a week at This Morning. I was knackered, but by 10am, I was mostly done. That’s my limit, as I know I want to be home with our baby. I would regret it if I missed her whole childhood.
‘Sometimes, I’m at an awards do and I’m thinking “Oh, I’ve missed bath and bedtime and I want to be there”. I have to constantly pick and choose when work takes priority and when it’s home. It’s a hard juggle’, she told The Sun.
Sian recently opened up to her fans in a refreshing Instagram post about the pressure of being a mum.
Sian Welby, 39, has candidly admitted she finds it ‘hard to juggle work and motherhood’ as she opened up on the pressure of being the ‘breadwinner’
The Capital Breakfast and This Morning presenter gave birth to her daughter Ruby in June 2024, whom she shares with fiancé Jake Beckett
She added: ‘Sometimes I am surviving, not thriving. I nearly didn’t post about it because I didn’t want it to look like I wanted people to feel sorry for me. Then I had so many mums say “Thanks, that made me feel like I wasn’t failing”.’
Sian, who shares her glamorous showbiz life from working on ITV’s This Morning to hosting Capital Breakfast on social media, admitted it is ‘really hard’ balancing being a mum and her career.
She explained how most days she is trying ‘to survive the day’ and is left questioning if she is ‘a bad mum’ as she balances her work while bringing up her 17-month-old little girl.
Speaking in a candid video, Sian said she has had a ‘really tough few weeks of parenting’ and wanted to make sure fans know her life isn’t always glamorous and she has no ‘cheat codes to parenting’.
She said: ‘Hiya, Just a quick one from me because I know I’ve got a lot of parents that follow me and I’m starting to feel guilt because I get a lot of DMs saying, “Oh Sian how are you doing it?” The early mornings, red carpet, celebrities and that kind of thing.
‘I’m scared that it reflects something that isn’t real life because my Instagram looks so glossy and showbiz and yet the truth of it is some days I am absolute rock bottom, cold in a corner wondering how I’m going to survive the next day, wondering how I’m going to go into work and I just don’t want to add to any parenting pressure.
‘I don’t want my timeline to look like something that you should be trying to achieve when I’m not even achieving it I’m literally using my Instagram to show you all my professional work, almost like a CV but I’m not showing you the full picture.
‘I’m not showing you the, you know 48hours of no sleep and the A&E trips and then the missive work commitments and then choosing, is it work or is it childcare, am I a good mum, I’m a bad mum, what am I doing!
Sian admitted she sticks to a ‘work limit’ to ensure she can be home with our baby daughter and not miss out on any of her childhood
Speaking in a video, Sian said she has had a ‘really tough few weeks of parenting’ and wanted to make sure fans know she has doesn’t have any ‘cheat codes to parenting’
The presenter welcomed her little girl Ruby in June 2024 with producer fiancé Jake Beckett
‘You know and I’m feeling like this all the time and I’m torn and I am struggling and I’m not getting it right every time and there are some days when I’m hanging by a thread.’
Sian stressed to her followers that ‘everyone’s situation is different’ and though it may not seem like she has had a ‘really hard’ time.
She continued: ‘I’m not saying this to get any sort of pity I’m just saying it so you know what your seeing on Instagram is obviously isn’t like the full story and isn’t achievable.
‘Please don’t think whatever you’re doing isn’t enough or that I’m somehow I’ve got the cheat codes to parenting because I really haven’t, like some days I’m just about surviving and there’s days when I genuinely think how am I going to do it and I think we all just do and when you’re in it you don’t think about it you just do it because that’s all you can do.
‘Everyone’s situation is different, everyone has you know commitments they have got to do and you have to keep trying to make the right decisions all the time.’
She concluded: ‘But you know I’ve had a really tough few weeks of parenting and maybe that’s not been reflected on here and on the radio then you might think its a breeze but I just wanted to be real with you all and it has been really hard.’
Sian welcomed her baby girl after an emergency C-section and just eight weeks later returned to work hosting This Morning.
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