The Bachelor alum Sydney Warner has found that flu season takes on a whole new meaning after becoming a mother.
“Mom life is warrior life [is] something I’ve realized this week,” Warner, 29, wrote via her Instagram Stories on Saturday, March 22. “I am understanding I now fit into the universal meaning of Mom, which means, when I am sick, everything falls apart.”
Sydney, who is married to San Francisco 49ers linebacker Fred Warner, welcomed son Beau in March 2024. Sydney, meanwhile, revealed in an earlier social media upload this weekend that she had been “feeling unwell” since Tuesday, March 18, with influenza.
Despite stocking up on fluids and getting rest, Sydney still has to take care of her 12-month-old son.
“There’s no such thing as ‘Mom, cook me something warm please,’ because I am Mom. I have to cook the warm chicken noodle soup,” Sydney jokingly added in her Saturday musings. “Also, no such thing as ‘I’m going to sleep in until I feel better.’ [At] 7 a.m. the house is up, and so am I!”
According to Sydney, she and Fred, 28, “still” needed to figure out their dinner plans that evening.
“Dinner still has to be figured out, even though food, to me, right now is stomach-curling,” she admitted. “Beau still needs 3,455 hours of playtime and stimulation. When I’m in the bathroom 🤮, my son is clawing at the door to get in.”
She continued, “So, yeah, moms actually cannot get sick, it’s just not a thing is what I’m relaxing. Got it!”
Sydney, luckily, doesn’t have to manage parenthood duties on her own as she has Fred in her corner.
“You find your footing. I think it took me a while to find my niche and where I felt comfortable being a wife [and] now a mother,” Sydney exclusively told Us Weekly in December 2024. “Now, I’m Fred’s partner and we’re a duo. That’s an amazing thing to say.”
being able to be a teammate with him and me finding my footing, as well. I think it’s just a timing thing, and it’s all worked out.”
Sydney and Fred, who have been married since 2022, have also found a supportive community in the other 49ers athletes and their respective families.
“It was a lot different back in the beginning, but now there’s this huge community of working women,” Sydney added to Us. “The women are kind of in the spotlight now, which is such a refreshing thing to see. It’s really cool to see how things change, you know? To be with such an amazing community and organization like the Niners, I couldn’t have asked for a better situation. We’re so happy to be here and so blessed.”
