Dana Vollmer was convinced that returning from her second pregnancy to competitive swimming would be easier than after her first child.
“That’s definitely not true,” she said Thursday as she readied for a Mother’s Day weekend trip to her native Texas.
Vollmer, who made the 2016 Olympic team 15 months after giving birth to son Arlen (and earned a medal of every color with the mantra “Momma on a Mission”), decided after Rio that she would try to repeat the process. With a few tweaks.
This time, the seven-time Olympic medalist would swim through her pregnancy.