Australian Olympic champion Libby Trickett has added another member to her bustling family by giving birth to her fifth child over the weekend.
The swimmer, 40, took to Instagram to share the heartwarming news with her 79,000 followers and announce that ‘the shape’ of her family is now complete.
‘He’s here,’ the post began, alongside a photo of Trickett and husband Luke holding the newborn.
‘Archie Wilson Lightning Trickett arrived at 7.51am on the 3rd of April via an elective caesarean birth, weighing 3.99kg and 53cm long.
‘The shape of our family is complete.
‘(Definitely promise it’s for reals this time! I’m really *almost* certain this time.. though I’ve come to realise that I probably would have babies forever, I know that I’ve pushed my body to its absolute limits with this one).’
Olympian Libby Trickett and husband Luke have welcomed their fifth baby
Trickett and her husband Luke already share four children – daughters Poppy, nine, Edwina, seven, Bronte, five, and a son, Alfred, one
‘Every birth I’ve had has been extraordinary and this one was no different. Calm, full of joy and laughter, I couldn’t have asked for a better way to meet our baby boy,’ she wrote.
‘Archie is already getting suitably smothered by his 3 big sisters and big brother. We have all been struck with love.’
The four-time Olympic gold medallist also explained that she has made the same mistake while pregnant with all her kids.
‘Just as a fun fact: we didn’t find out the sex of the baby for any of our pregnancies, and I literally guessed the gender of every single one of my children, wrong. I didn’t predict a single one and I feel so lucky because I couldn’t have wished for more,’ she wrote.
Trickett and her husband Luke already share four children – daughters Poppy, nine, Edwina, seven, Bronte, five, and a son, Alfred, one.
The athlete was quickly inundated with congratulatory messages from her famous friends and followers as they shared their joy with the happy couple.
‘Enormous congrats xxxxx,’ wrote Olympic hurdler Jana Pitman.
‘Congratulations,’ replied surfing great Mick Fanning.
Trickett, 40, said her fifth pregnancy had been particularly tough
Olympic champ says the shape of her family is now complete with the birth of Archie
The couple welcomed their fourth child – their son Alfie – in May 2023 (pictured in hospital at the time)
‘What a little superstar. Congratulations all around,’ posted tennis champ Ash Barty.
‘Woohoo. A massive congratulations,’ posted swimming legend Grant Hackett.
Trickett 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, Trickett 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.
‘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.’
Trickett 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.
Trickett, 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.
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