Sian Welby on why she kept pregnancy hidden from This Morning bossesCredit: Giovanna Fletcher's Happy Mum Happy Baby
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00:00In any job, when you first start a job, you feel like, oh, no one knows actually what I'm like and that, you know, that I am trustworthy.
00:06You've got to prove yourself in some way.
00:07Prove yourself, yes. And I felt like I'd kind of proven myself, look, I can do this, I can do that.
00:12When I got that first this morning cover with Dermot, I knew I was pregnant but didn't tell anyone.
00:18Really?
00:19Yeah, because again, slightly in the back of my mind, I was like, well, if I tell them I'm pregnant, will this put them off getting me in again?
00:27And will they think, well, she's going to be off for ages. Oh, well, actually, maybe we don't want to train her up to like be one of the team and then for her to go.
00:35Yeah, which I'm sure so many women must feel in any job, especially if they're starting a new one.
00:41I bet they're thinking, I've just got this new job and I can't tell them that I'm pregnant.
00:45And it's the fear that you're going to be immediately judged or dropped or they'll go, well, why don't you tell us?
00:51Yeah, because that's really inconvenient for us now. You know what I mean?
00:53You feel like that and you're like, what the hell am I doing? This is so natural. It's so normal.
00:58Why am I feeling so bad about it and so on the back foot about it?
01:01So how pregnant were you when you did this one?
01:03It was 20 weeks.
01:04No!
01:04Yeah.
01:05How did you keep a 20-week bump secret?
01:08Well, I remember, honestly, the stylist was like, she went, oh, these have come a bit small, these trousers.
01:13And she was cut, one of my like suits, I wore this like pink suit on one of the days and the back is cut out.
01:20She cut the back, she went, oh, it's a bit tight. And I was like, oh, I don't know why.
01:23And I was just...
01:24Did you not tell anyone? Did you tell Demet?
01:25No. No, I didn't tell anybody. Only my other half at this point knew and maybe a handful of others.
01:32I think my parents, well, yes, because it was the start of the year. So over Christmas, I told family.
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