On Saturday morning, Yvonne Baek Rasmussen made a phone call from New Delhi to her two children back home in Denmark, just as they were getting ready to go to school.
"I asked how things were with them and how they were feeling. Regular mom talk. Just kiss-kiss, hug-hug stuff," she says. Rasmussen then spoke to her husband. That conversation went differently.
"I'm really not in the mood to speak to you right now. I'm about to get into the ring. Goodbye," is how Rasmussen recalls that bit of the talk. Within a few minutes, the Danish middleweight was on the canvas, pummeling her opponent on the way to making the quarterfinal at the World Championships.
Rasmussen explains the need to flick the switch in her head to go from mom to war mode. "I need to get that out of my head when I go into the ring. There, I want to kill someone. I have to go in with fire. All the soft stuff - the sweety sweety stuff - has to go out. I have to put that all out of the way when I go to war."
Fighting moms are not unexceptional on their own at the Boxing World Championships. There is Mary Kom of course, who has famously balanced raising her three young children while also becoming a five-time world champion. Finland's Olympic bronze medalist Mira Potkonen took to boxing after the birth of her daughter. There is also the case of Puerto Rico's Nisa Rodriguez, who had to opt out of the journey to Delhi after failing to find suitable care for her young child in her absence.
Rasmussen, who goes by 'Mama Y' on Instagram, has her own story to share too. While the 37-year-old is determined to keep her two sides separate, she can't. When she steps in the ring, Rasmussen isn't just fighting for herself. She is also competing for her son Killian.
Killian suffers from Pompe disease, a rare genetic disorder that affects one in every 140000 births.
"My son has a genetic disease. It's known to exist all over the world including in India and Pakistan," she says. "Because of it, my son is in a wheelchair. Pompe disease causes you to store glycogen in your body so that there is no space for your muscles. He has to train like a professional athlete simply so that he can stand. There are many children with Pompe disease but it doesn't get the kind of recognition that maybe cancer does."
That's where the boxing comes in. "I have an agenda here. I want to have a voice in the press at home. If I do well as a boxer then maybe I can raise more awareness for the disease and perhaps get more support for it. So I'm fighting for Killian too."
Rasmussen has been boxing long before the births of her children, though. She belongs to one of the earliest generations of women boxers, having laced her first pair of gloves in 2001 and winning her first medal - a bronze - at the 2005 Worlds'.
She only took what was supposed to be a temporary break when she was pregnant with Killian in 2009. "Within a month of giving birth I wanted to get back to the ring. But at that time there were some restriction by the Danish federation and I was asked to wait. And then a few months later I was pregnant again with my daughter Euphemia."
As the years ticked by and Rasmussen busied herself with her family life, she had nearly accepted that she wouldn't box competitively again. It was only a chance encounter with a former coach that reignited her passion.
"In 2014, I was 33 and at that time I was under the impression that the AIBA rules didn't permit you to box beyond 34. So I felt I would never be able to compete at the Olympics. But one day one of my old coaches told me that the age limit had been set at 40 years. So I felt I still had a chance."
Getting back in shape wasn't the hard part.
"I'm a farmer's daughter. I was taking care of my family's cows when I was three years old. So I never struggled with my fitness. I maybe am not as good with the technical side. But I have my strength and my will and my heart and my genes to go on and on," she says.
The challenge was balancing her family life. "It's absolutely a challenge. You have to live by a schedule everyday. You have to do your job and you have to send the kids to school and my husband has a job so everything has to connect. So I'm training when the kids wake up and I am training when they have gone to sleep."
The fact that her son was dealing with a special set of conditions only made the hurdles steeper. Even sleep has to be rationed out. "Sometimes I feel like I have to pack in 48 hours in the day. I'm probably sleeping about five hours every day. At night I will sleep for three hours and then I have to turn my son over and then sleep again."
Rasmussen doesn't use this as an excuse though. "I don't know if this is a good thing or not. Because it has just taught me that this is just how you live. This is just what you have to do. The human body can do nearly anything. It's just a matter of getting used to it."
Of course there are moments where she feels absolutely overwhelmed. That's when boxing isn't a challenge, but a salve.
"I could go in a corner and cry for a day and think it is such a pity that my son has to deal with such pain but it doesn't help you. You need to stand up and go fighting. The boxing helps me because when you feel pain, psychologically, it helps you when you go outside and get the pain on your body too. It makes it feel like an equal weight."
In certain ways, despite all the juggling she has to do and the fact that she's over a decade older than when she began competing, Rasmussen believes she is a better fighter now.
"I feel stronger after having kids. My mind is more clear. Before it was that I was afraid of losing, it was almost as if I was in a dream. Now it seems more real. I'm going to do my job and then I'm going to go back to my kids."
Her determination to remain positive has rubbed off on her children too. "Killian wants to be a boxer also. He's on a wheelchair but he wants to be some sort of a para boxer."
When Rasmussen felt guilty about having to miss her son's birthday last week as she trained in Delhi, it was her son who cheered her up. "He said he didn't care whether I was with him or not. He just wants me to come back with a medal."
Killian unfortunately won't get his wish after his mother was beaten in the pre-quarterfinals on Monday. But if there is one thing that is guaranteed, it's that his mother won't be giving up anytime soon.
"My goal is still to compete and win a medal at the Olympics. I won't take no for an answer. People wonder how I will manage. My answer is that everybody makes sacrifices for what they want in life.
"You chose what you want to do. I want my kids and I want the boxing. And I tell people that you can do it as long as you decide to do it with all your heart. This sport is exactly like that, and life is like that too."