The realities of ‘mum guilt’ for sportswomen
The TelegraphMills gave birth to her daughter Sienna last October and was back on a boat three months later competing for Great Britain in the SailGP event in Singapore. That ‘mum guilt’ is something podcast host Sam Quek, who won gold in hockey at the Rio Olympics and has two young children, can relate too. She said: “After six weeks I went to a baby group and one of the mums said to me, ‘When are you going back to work?’. “I suffer massively from mum guilt all the time, but I always think I’m the best version of me when I’m busy and I enjoy what I’m doing outside of being a mum. Otherwise women are having long-term consequences or even worse, not going back to sport.” Listen to The Telegraph’s new podcast, The Telegraph Women’s Sport Podcast, on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts.
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