High profile 60 Minutes journalist Allison Langdon isn’t letting motherhood slow her down in the slightest.
The career driven woman, who gave birth to her son Mack in January this year, was back on the job three months later – juggling the demands of her hectic work life like the professional she is.
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.
The eagle-eyed newshound juggles the demands of her hectic career with motherhood
Allison and her husband Michael Willesee Jr celebrated the arrival of Mack in January this year
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 made it back to work full-time only three months after giving birth
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.’