WNBA players win at motherhood and career
When DeMya Walker, now an 11-year WNBA veteran, became pregnant in 2006, the hardest part of her excruciating, 96-hour-long labor was the ultimate decision that she would need a cesarean...
From: Huffington Post
When DeMya Walker, forward for the Connecticut Sun and now an 11-year WNBA veteran, became pregnant in 2006, the hardest part of her excruciating, 96-hour-long labor was the ultimate decision that she would need a cesarean.
“They cut through my abs!” she said on the telephone, the exasperation still present in her voice five years later.
Not her stomach?
“No, my abs!” Walker repeated, unable to consider her midsection as anything other than a six-pronged mass of core strength. “I kept saying, ‘You don’t understand. I’m a professional athlete, and if you cut my abs it’ll be harder for me to get back.’”
