Melissa Doyle: Sunrise routine “gruelling” for young mum

Former Sunrise presenter Melissa Doyle has spoken about the challenges of being a young mother and appearing on the Seven breakfast show every day.

Doyle had returned to Seven from maternity leave in a variety of news roles before being asked to front a revamped Sunrise with Chris Reason, later replaced by David Koch.

While she remains appreciative of her 14 years on the show, there were times the hours were difficult.

“You know Kochie (David Koch) was fantastic. Were during Sunrise together and he was a dad of four and was very aware to a degree of some of the things I was going through,” she tells podcast And We’re Rolling with Stephanie Hunt

“I started At Sunrise when Nick was six-months-old, I just finished maternity leave. And then I had Talia while I was doing the program I only took a few weeks off to have her and then I came back and we had to go on the road every Friday for the first month of me coming back.

“Our wonderful boss at the time thought that it would be great to take the show around the country. And you know, I’ve got a three week old baby at home and I was still breastfeeding and everything still hurts, and everything was still leaking.

“It was just, it was really, really hard.”

Doyle co-hosted Sunrise from 2002 – 2013

“But I do know for probably a good decade of my life, it was just, you get up early, go to work, you come home, you do your home job, you get up and you go into your paid job, and you come back into your home job and I wouldn’t swap it for anything.

“But it was really gruelling. So I feel for any mum who is trying to juggle the two that sometimes we don’t actually have enough compassion and tenderness and support.”

Via: news.com.au