The Bachelor alum Sydney Warner has discovered that flu season takes on an entirely new meaning after stepping into motherhood.
“Mom life is warrior life [is] something I’ve realized this week,” Warner, 29, shared 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 shares son Beau with her husband, San Francisco 49ers linebacker Fred Warner, welcomed their baby boy in March 2024. In a previous social media post over the weekend, she revealed she had been feeling under the weather since Tuesday, March 18, after coming down with the flu.
Even with plenty of fluids and rest, Sydney still has to keep up with the demands of caring for her 12-month-old son.
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“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,” she quipped in her Saturday reflections. “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!”
Sydney also noted that she and Fred, 28, still had to figure out dinner that night.
“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.”
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She continued, “So, yeah, moms actually cannot get sick, it’s just not a thing is what I’m realizing. Got it!”
Fortunately, Sydney isn’t navigating parenthood alone—she has Fred by her side.
“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 in December 2024. “Now, I’m Fred’s partner and we’re a duo. That’s an amazing thing to say.”
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“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,” she added.
Sydney and Fred, who tied the knot in 2022, have also found a strong support system among other 49ers athletes and their families.
“It was a lot different back in the beginning, but now there’s this huge community of working women,” Sydney told. “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.”
