Alex: I wasn’t ready to leave my Teddy
THE One Show host Alex Jones reckons she went back to work too soon after giving birth to son Teddy last year.
Alex describes her return as a “nightmare” and tells how she had to give up feeding baby Teddy.
Alex, 41, says: “I went back too soon. I was still trying to feed going back to work. After the meeting I’d try and express, then go into the rehearsal, and go back and try and express a little bit more, and my milk was in the fridge with all the food being given to the guests!
“I was like, this is not working, this is a nightmare. I’d sit on the sofa and the titles would start playing and I’d feel this stain start coming through the dress and I’d think, oh no, this is awful.
“I thought, I really hope people out there will understand what’s happened here.
“Of course, you can imagine, there were some comments that were really upsetting to read but there’s nothing I could do about it.”
Talking of her return last April, three months after she and husband Charlie welcomed baby Teddy, she said: “It destroyed my confidence in terms of trying to feed and be back at work.
“So by four months I had to give in to formula completely. I was combining but it just wasn’t working.” Speaking on the podcast Happy Mum Happy Baby, Alex also admitted to sometimes being jealous of her baby’s nanny, Jess.
She added: “Jess is a brilliant girl and we couldn’t do without her. She’s wonderful in so many ways and we love her, however there is still that feeling that I want to be doing the things that she’s doing with Teddy.
“And it’s really tough. I remember the one where he crawled for the first time and she’d sent a video of it to Charlie and I.
“And both of us were crestfallen, thinking – I wanted to see it!” Alex with Teddy Magda Thomas