Rebecca Judd has revealed she sought ‘professional help’ to look after her newborn son because he wouldn’t stick to her rigid schedule.
The AFL WAG admitted she hired a nanny to help care for her now six-year-old son Oscar, but insisted it doesn’t make her any ‘less of a mum’.
The mother-of-four, 35, also confessed that she struggled to leave behind her ‘self-absorbed life’ after having children, revealing to Mamamia she was ‘shocked’ by the change that kids brought to her day-to-day routine.
‘I’ve always been a perfectionist’: Bec Judd has admitted she ‘sought professional help’ when her newborn son wouldn’t stick to her schedule and struggled to leave behind her ‘self-absorbed life’ after having children
‘I think just going from this self-absorbed life where it’s just you and your husband, and you can go out and go to a café every morning… That existence where it’s just you and your partner, and that’s all you’re thinking about and nobody else, that shock of being fully responsible for another human being,’ she said on Saturday.
The Channel Nine personality shares four children with her husband, retired AFL star Chris Judd: son Oscar, daughter Billie, four, and one-year-old twins Tom and Darcy.
She explained that it helped to have an extra pair of hands to assist with the children during their early years.
Rebecca revealed her mother lived with her and Chris for about a year when their twins were born, adding that she has a babysitter who helps out when she’s at work.
Sweet family: The presenter has four children with AFL star husband Chris – Oscar, daughter Billie, four, and one-year-old twin sons Tom and Darcy
The WAG confessed that she found it ‘really, really hard’ raising her first child, Oscar.
‘I was trying to do a routine and he wouldn’t do it, I was trying to feed him and he wouldn’t feed, he was screaming… Just feeling out of control for the first time in my life shocked me,’ she said.
‘But by the time he was six weeks old and I got some professional help, he was perfect, pretty much from that day on.’
Rebecca emphasised that getting help is ‘key’ to being a first-time mother, insisting women shouldn’t feel like they are alone and have to be ‘Super Woman’.
Getting help: The AFL WAG said she hired a nanny to help care for her now six-year-old son Oscar, insisting it doesn’t make her any ‘less of a mum’
The model and brand ambassador wed former AFL Carlton captain Chris, 34, in a lavish ceremony in 2010.
Speaking to The Australian Women’s Weekly recently, Rebecca admitted that she never expected to have had such a large family at a young age.
‘I think I’ll be in shock till the day I die that I have four kids and especially twin boys,’ the brunette told the monthly publication.
Support: Rebecca revealed her mother lived with her and Chris for a year when their twins (pictured) were born – and added that she has a babysitter who helps out with them when she’s at work