Libby Trickett — four-time Olympic gold medallist, radio host and all-round excellent human being — has announced she and her swimmer husband, Luke Trickett, are expecting their second child.
The couple, who married in 2007, are already parents to two-year-old daughter Poppy, and are expecting the new arrival in early March.
Libby, 32, shared the happy news live on air during her Triple M drive show alongside Luke Bradnam and Ben “Dobbo” Dobbin on Friday.
“I’m very excited to announce that my hubby and I are pregnant with baby number two — we’re having another baby,” she said.
Libby also shared a sonogram of ‘Baby Trickett Number Two,’ as she’s dubbed her baby-to-be, alongside a slew of hashtags that reveal the couple won’t be finding out the baby’s gender ahead of the due date.
“Luke and I are super excited to announce that we will be welcoming baby Trickett #2 into the world in early March!!” she wrote on Instagram. “#cantwait #babytrickettnumber2 #herewegoagain #preparingforthesleepdeprivation #😬 #popsispredictingababybrudda #boyorgirlwhoknows #thattummyisntjustmyexcessivehotchipintake.”
Speaking with Kidspot, the sportswoman recently open up about the less-than-glamorous moments of motherhood in a bid to create a sense of authenticity.
“I just wish people shared more authentically,” she said in the interview published in April.
“Share the poo in the bath. Share the midnight spew you’ve just had to clean up… share those moments as well as the gorgeous first birthday and the perfectly made cake and those sorts of things.”
Libby said motherhood had been “really challenging and hard” and, in many ways, more difficult than her hugely successful swimming career.
“It’s probably tested me to my limits more than I ever could have imagined. More than I was tested in swimming because swimming I was good at, you know. And you kind of get feedback that you’re good at it… but when you have a newborn particularly, but even at 19 months you still kind of go ‘I don’t know if I’m doing a good job. I don’t know if this is the right way to do it.’”
“Every day you’re constantly having to let go and accept the situation as it is rather than trying to expect or think differently of your child.”
She added: “Poppy has constantly been different to what I imagined her to be and that is a constant evolution for me to go ‘Poppy is who she is and I love her regardless of whether she’s throwing a tantrum in the middle of a shopping centre or not’.”
Congratulations again to the happy family!
