Australian Olympic champion Libby Trickett has announced she is expecting her fifth child with her husband Luke.
The swimmer, 39, took to Instagram on Friday to share her jovial baby news with her 76,000 followers and confirmed she is already around four months pregnant.
She shared a photograph of their ultrasound scan and admitted she and Luke were both ‘thrilled’ and ‘terrified’ to reveal they are set to welcome another child.
The couple already share four children – daughters Poppy, eight, Edwina, five, and Bronte, three, and a son, Alfred, 18 months.
They are yet to find out the gender of their fifth child and Libby shared her excitement over her growing family in her heartwarming post.
She gushed: ‘Luke and I are absolutely thrilled (and ever so slightly terrified) to announce that we will be welcoming Baby Trickett 5.0 into the world in April!!
‘Poppy is already excited for another baby, Eddie thinks it will be a little boy and Bronte thinks it will be a little girl and Alfie keeps pointing to my tummy and saying ‘baby’ but really has no idea what’s he’s in for.’
Libby was quickly inundated with congratulatory messages from her famous friends and followers as they shared their joy with the happy couple.
Australian Olympic champion Libby Trickett has announced she is expecting her fifth child with her husband Luke
The swimmer, 39, took to Instagram on Friday to share her jovial baby news with her 76,000 followers, posting a picture of her ultrasound scan
Michelle Bridges commented on her post: ‘Congratulations,’ while Grace Tame also left similar sentiments.
Author Rebecca Sparrow added: ‘The world needs more people raised in warm, loving homes. I am so thrilled for you all, Lib. You’ve got this. And we’ve all got you.’
Meanwhile, one user remarked: ‘Yay! Congrats lib, such a fabulous mum.’
While another penned: ‘Amazing!!!!!!! Big families are the best.’
Libby’s baby news comes just 18 months after she and Luke welcomed their fourth child together in May last year.
The Olympic gold medallist took to Instagram at the time to share the happy news in a heartfelt post, posting pictures of her cradling her newborn son in hospital.
‘He’s here,’ the proud mother shared in her post. ‘The final little piece to our family puzzle (for reals this time!).
‘Alfred Sunny Trickett arrived at 9.09am on the 17th of May. Every birth I’ve had has been extraordinary and this one was no different.
Libby and LUke already share four children – daughters Poppy, eight, Edwina, five, and Bronte, three (all pictured), and a son, Alfred, 18 months
Libby’s baby news comes just 18 months after she and Luke welcomed their fourth child – their son Alfie – in May last year (pictured in hospital at the time)
‘Calm, full of joy and laughter, I couldn’t have asked for a better way to meet our baby boy.’
Already a mother to three daughters, the champion swimmer joked: ‘Alfie has no idea what he’s in for with his three big sisters and the girls are absolutely smitten.’
She said Alfie arrived into the world via an elective caesarean, weighing 3.5kg and measuring 52cm long.
Libby has previously opened up about her history with postnatal depression after welcoming her third child, Bronte, in 2020.
‘I think whenever you have such a change in your life, it can be always quite daunting,’ she said.
‘Especially for me, knowing that I’ve had a history of postnatal depression, and it’s certainly something we are acutely aware of.’
When Poppy was just four months old, Libby said the extreme sleep deprivation caused her mental health to spiral.
The lack of sleep caused her to become angry, and it got to the point where she would scream at her daughter.
‘It’s almost like I had a mental break, and I just had this moment where I completely lost it at Poppy, I was screaming at her,’ she said.
Libby, who was once the fastest female swimmers in the world, was forced to give up on her career in the pool at just 28 due to injury
‘The progression of the extreme sleep deprivation that she put everyone through just spiralled my mental health and my mental illness to a point that I became scared of me.
‘I couldn’t imagine being an eight-month-old baby and being screamed at.’
Libby then decided she needed to get help and used her memoir, Beneath the Surface, to help other women understand the warning signs of the condition.
Libby, who was once the fastest female swimmers in the world, was forced to give up on her career in the pool at the age of 28 due to injury.
She famously took home the gold medal at the 2004, 2008, and the 2012 Summer Olympics, and was the world record holder in the short-course 100-metre freestyle.
