The One Show host Alex Jones has spoken out about the family logistical problem that she is facing during her second pregnancy.
The 42-year-old has spoken candidly about the challenges she is facing while expecting her second child with husband Charlie Thomson.
Alex was discussing parenting with Libby Clegg on podcast Guide Dogs: By My Side, when she lamented the lack of family support during this pregnancy, after an 'amazing amount of help' when two-year-old Teddy was first born.
Alex praised her mum for her help with Teddy, saying that she would have struggled without it.
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Alex revealed: "Mum was amazing at the beginning with Teddy.
“She was there for the first three weeks and thank goodness for her because I don’t know how we would’ve done it, actually.”
Alex than asked podcast host Libby if her and partner Dan Powell enjoyed a similar amount of help from family but Libby revealed that their family dynamics made it difficult to have such level of help.
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Libby replied: “We don’t have any family support at the mo because we live so far away from them.”(sic)
Alex then bemoaned that she was now in a similar problem, as her parents and in-laws now lived some distance from her London home.
The TV presenter said: "We have the same problem. One set is in New Zealand, Auckland, and one set is in Wales, it’s not on the doorstep type of stuff.”
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Not only that, Alex also said that she was getting fed up with the amount of 'advice' she receives and wished she could tell people to keep their thoughts to themselves.
She revealed: “You must’ve been bombarded with advice, as everybody is at the beginning, and it kind of gets annoying, doesn’t it?”
“You just think, ‘We’re going to do it our way and we will find our own way.’”
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Alex is now on maternity leave from the BBC teatime show and she updated her 165,000 Instagram followers with her latest pregnancy news.
The TV host revealed that it was the "calm before the storm" as she relaxed ahead of the birth.
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Captioning a series of pics detailing her day, Alex wrote: “Really settling into this maternity lark this morning.
“Four hours of chatting and coffee and lunch in beautiful surroundings with lovely friends felt so indulgent.
“Yes, it’s the calm before the storm but let’s enjoy some lovely pictures of interiors/plans in the meantime.”
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