In a longer interview with the magazine, Sjöström tells about last week's birth drama. About how they had to be picked up by an ambulance and driven across all of Stockholm, from their home in Lidingö to Södersjukhuset on Södermalm, because the maternity ward in more nearby Danderyd was full.
And about how she eventually had to give birth in the ambulance, in the parking lot outside the hospital.
It will be a good story to tell Adrian one day, says Sjöström to DN, about her newborn son.
In a way, it's a damn powerful feeling to give birth in that way. Even if I would never want to do it again.
The plan is still to get back to swimming. 32-year-old Sjöström has taken the most individual World Championship medals in long course of all time – 23 (14 gold) – and six Olympic Games medals, of which three gold.
Already in July, she told TT that she had written down the European Championship in Paris next year, 10–16 August, in the competition calendar. It still appeals to her.
But as I have said all the time, it will take the time it takes, and the body will decide, she says to DN.
If I recover as I should, and my strength comes back, maybe it will be a championship comeback in the European Championship in Paris. It could be fun.
