{"id":36500,"date":"2025-12-13T01:08:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/lark-atkin-davies-womens-rugby-world-cup-winner-announces-pregnancy\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T01:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:08:54","slug":"lark-atkin-davies-womens-rugby-world-cup-winner-announces-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/lark-atkin-davies-womens-rugby-world-cup-winner-announces-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lark Atkin-Davies: Women&#8217;s Rugby World Cup winner announces pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Rugby World Cup winner Lark Atkin-Davies has announced she is pregnant with her first child.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Bristol Bears hooker has not played for her club during this Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Atkin-Davies has 74 caps for the Red Roses and played in all six matches, scoring three tries, as England won the World Cup on home soil in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a video posted on her Instagram, the 30-year-old said she was due in June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol Bears said they &#8220;can&#8217;t wait to welcome a new bear cub&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Atkin-Davies made her England debut in 2015.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Her England and Bristol team-mate Abbie Ward gave birth to a daughter in 2023, returning to the sport just 17 weeks later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England players are entitled to 26 weeks&#8217; fully-paid maternity leave, as well as funds for children to travel to games with them, after the Rugby Football Union <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/64655045\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">updated its maternity policy<\/a> in February 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/rugby-union\/articles\/c62nnee61l9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rugby World Cup winner Lark Atkin-Davies has announced she is pregnant with her first child. The Bristol Bears hooker has not played for her club during this Premiership Women&#8217;s Rugby season. Atkin-Davies has 74 caps for the Red Roses and played in all six matches, scoring three tries, as England won the World Cup on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36502,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36500\/revisions\/36502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}