Lucy Fallon shares candid snap and details struggle as a new mum after opening up about birth

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Coronation Street actress took to Instagram with a candid snap to mark Maternal Mental Health Week. Lucy and her footballer boyfriend Ryan Ledson announced earlier in February that their baby boy had safely been born on January 30.

The actress, who played Bethany Platt in the ITV soap from 2015 to 2022, then officially introduced her first child, Sonny Jude, to the world at the end of February weeks after his arrival.

And taking to Instagram last week, 28-year-old Lucy appeared to suggest she had found the motherhood groove as she posed for a selfie. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp communityLucy looked fresh-faced as she posed for the camera in a white t-shirt as she accessorised with some silver jewellery and pulled her blond locks back into an updo. "Starting to feel more like moi again," Lucy typed alongside the gorgeous image. "If ur in the thick of newborn chaos - it gets so much easier," she then added to her fellow new mums.

And fans were quick to praise her for her message of support as well as show her some love in return. Now, in a fresh Instagram Story post, Lucy, who is starring in new ITVX period drama Tom Jones, posted an image that showed her sleeping having nodded off while tending to her baby son. "Maternal mental health week," she prefaced the post. "There is nothing in the world that can prepare you," she went on to share. "From giving birth, the aftermath and then having this teeny tiny ll human bean to take care of. " Commenting on what she's found hard, Lucy typed: "The thing I've struggled with the most is the anxiety that comes with being a mum.