Finding the perfect work-life balance after giving birth can be challenging.
But for 60 Minutes journalist Allison Langdon, she has found a way to enjoy the best of both worlds by bringing her now-seven-month-old son Mack on the road for work.
The jet-setting reporter hasn’t let motherhood slow her down in the slightest after bouncing back into her busy work schedule just three months after his birth.
Since returning from maternity leave, the Australian has opened up about the ‘dilemma’ she faces trying to juggle her life as a working mother.
60 Minutes journalist Allison Langdon has revealed she takes her baby son Mack to work
The jet-setting reporter bounced back into her busy work schedule just three months after giving birth to her baby boy
‘I travel for my job, but I hate leaving my son. It’s a juggle and one I don’t always get right. So these days when I can, I take the little man with me,’ she wrote for 9Honey.
‘That’s right, Mack is 60 Minutes’ newest crew member! Admittedly he can’t carry a camera yet, or work the sound equipment however he does provide countless hours of entertainment.’
And despite enjoying motherhood on the go, Ms Langdon admits it’s still tough juggling her career – but she’s ‘grateful’ for the memories she’s building with her son.
‘It all sounds very romantic and modern. The reality though is that while worth it, it’s bloody hard,’ she said.
Since returning from maternity leave, the Australian has opened up about the ‘dilemma’ she faces trying to juggle her life as a working mother
Little Mack playing with the a 60 Minutes crew member as she goes to work with his mother
Despite enjoying motherhood on the go, Ms Langdon admits it’s still tough juggling her career
While she’s taken her seven-month-old on many assignments already, she recently revealed an upcoming overseas trip will be her young son’s first.
Speaking with The Daily Telegraph, the roving reporter said life on the road was part of the job but felt as nervous as any new mum about her son travelling long distance.
‘I try not to travel too much, but it is hard to restrict, given the job,’ she said.
‘He has been on lots of planes, and I’m about to take him overseas soon – it will be his first international flight, which I’m slightly nervous about.’
‘I’m lucky he’s a very good and very happy baby,’ she said.
Allison and her husband Michael Willesee Jr celebrated the arrival of Mack in January this year
Although the seasoned journalist makes motherhood look effortless, Allison admits she is still learning
Although the successful 38-year-old, who is married to Michael Willesee Jr, makes motherhood look easy, she previously admitted she is still learning.
‘I have found that you can’t do it all and be good at it,’ she said.
‘Juggling this new world of motherhood, I have just worked out that you have to be 50 per cent good at everything and accept that.
‘I have had to come to terms with the fact that I’m not going to be brilliant at everything right now and that’s OK.’
She said that as an older mum all of her mistakes have been with the children of friends and family
Allison believes making motherhood work is a case of being able to accept there are times when you’re not going to be brilliant at everything
Allison’s mature approach to parenting, she revealed is largely a result of her coming to motherhood later in life.
She said she learnt a lot about babies through friends and parents, although there were times she admitted where she had her share of parenting fails.
‘I remember my very first girlfriend had a baby. I went around… and she handed him over and he just slipped straight through my hands onto the wooden floor, she revealed in a 9Supermums podcast.
Young Mack already has already clocked up plenty of air miles but this upcoming international trip will be his first
Her friend’s newborn wasn’t the only baby that she let slip out of her fingers, having previously dropped her sister-in-law’s child.
‘[It’s gotten] to the point where if I was allowed a cuddle as a woman in my mid-thirties, she’d stand and have her hands underneath me,’ she said.
Luckily, Allison joked, her previous baby-handling training ‘paid off’.
‘All that practice of dropping means I haven’t dropped Mack yet.’