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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Emma Dunn

Single mum who's 'proud' to be a workaholic was answering emails just after giving birth

A single mum who once replied to her emails days after giving birth and asked to go back to work just three weeks later says she is “proud” to be a workaholic.

Lydia Mujuru, 49, didn’t realise she was “obsessed” with work until she felt like something was missing when on maternity leave with her eldest son, Damien, 23.

The career-driven mum was contacting colleagues before she knew it to ask for work to do.

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