Australian Olympic champion Libby Trickett added another member to her lively family by giving birth to her fifth child during the weekend.
The 40 -year -old swimmer went to Instagram to share the comforting news with her 79,000 subscribers and announce that “the form” of her family is now over.
“He is here,” started the post, alongside a photo of Trickett and her husband Luke holding the newborn.
“Archie Wilson Lightning Trickett arrived at 7:51 a.m. on April 3 via an elective cesarean, weighing 3.99 kg and 53 cm long.
“The shape of our family is complete.
“(Certainly promoting it is for the real ones this time! I am really * almost * certain this time … Although I know that I would probably have babies forever, I know that I pushed my body to its absolute limits with it).”
Olympian Libby Trickett and her husband Luke welcomed their fifth baby
Trickett and her husband Luke already share four children – Daughters Poppy, Nine, Edwina, Seven, Bronte, Five, and a son, Alfred, a
“Each birth I had was extraordinary and it was no different. Calm, full of joy and laughter, I could not have asked for a better way to meet our little boy ”, she wrote.
“Archie is already properly suffocated by his 3 big sisters and her big brother. We were all struck with love.
The quadruple Olympic gold medalist also explained that she had made the same pregnant error of all her children.
“Just like a fun fact: we did not discover the baby’s sex for none of our pregnancies, and I literally guessed the sex of each of my children, evil. I did not plan a single one and I feel so lucky because I could not have wished more ”, she wrote.
Trickett and her husband Luke already share four children – Daughters Poppy, Nine, Edwina, Seven, Bronte, Five, and a son, Alfred, UN.
The athlete was quickly flooded with messages from congratulations from his famous friends and followers as they shared their joy with the happy couple.
“Huge congratulations XXXXX,” wrote the Olympic Empressor Jana Pitman.
“Congratulations,” replied Great Mick Fanning.
Trickett, 40, said that her fifth pregnancy had been particularly difficult
Olympic champion says that the shape of his family is now complete with the birth of Archie
The couple welcomed their fourth child – their son Alfie – in May 2023 (photo at the hospital at the time)
“What a little superstar. Congratulations all around, posted the tennis champion Ash Barty.
‘Woohoo. Massive congratulations, ”published the Legend of Swimming Grant Hackett.
Trickett has already talked about its history with postnatal depression after welcoming its third child, Bronte, in 2020.
“I think that whenever you have such a change in your life, it can always be quite intimidating,” she said.
“Especially for me, knowing that I had a history of postnatal depression, and that is certainly something that we are very aware of.”
When Poppy was only four months old, Trickett said that extreme sleep deprivation had caused a spiral of its mental health.
The lack of sleep led her to get angry, and she came to the point that she was crying for her daughter.
“It’s almost as if I had a mental break, and I just had this moment when I completely lost it in Poppy, I was screaming on him,” she said.
“The progression of the extreme deprivation of sleep that she made everyone who comes from spiral my mental health and my mental illness to the point that I was afraid of me.
“I couldn’t imagine being an eight -month -old baby and being shouted.”
Trickett then decided that she had to get help and use her memoirs, below the surface, to help other women understand the warning signs of the condition.
Trickett, who was once the fastest female swimmer in the world, was forced to give up her career in the swimming pool at the age of 28 due to an injury.
She won the gold medal in 2004, 2008 and at the 2012 summer Olympic Games, and was holder of the world record in more than 100 meters free.
