RTE star Katie Hannon has opened about the stress she felt returning back to work after maternity leave.
The host – who is usually notoriously private about her personal life – opened up about the “traumatic” birth of her twin daughters, who were born premature back in 2010.
Katie – who is married to Andrew Fitzpatrick, who also works for RTE, - said: “We spent six weeks in the special care unit with our babies and that was a very traumatic time.
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“You don’t just walk away from that and forget about it.
“So now, when I hear stories that are similar, it brings me right back and I feel that jolt again.
“My babies were two and a half pounds and just over three pounds when they were born, and they are hale and hearty now.
“The rotunda Special Care Unit was just so good and so we were incredibly lucky and incredibly grateful for what they did for us,” she told the RTE Guide.
Speaking about returning back to work from maternity leave, she admits it was “stressful”.
“I had my kids late in life and up to then, I worked all the hours possible. It never bothered me because I was so engaged with the stories.
“Then I had two babies, two premature babies, and took a full year off, using every bit of leave that I had.
“When I came back to work, it was so stressful. Suddenly everything had to be concertinaed into a shorter time and the phone would ring and it would be the creche and you’d go, No! No! No! And if I had one sick baby, I’d have two sick babies because of cross infection.
“But once you got the work done in half the time because you had to. I also think that I got better at my job because I had to be more disciplined," she added.
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