“We are so in love and beyond happy.”
Libby Trickett, a former professional swimmer who has four Olympic gold medals to her name, has just added another achievement to her belt.
The 30-year-old retired swimmer has welcomed her first child with husband Luke.
With a beautiful selfie, Trickett introduced her baby girl named Poppy Frances to her 14 thousand followers.
She captioned the photo, “Luke and I are so thrilled to announce that our little girl, Poppy Frances Trickett, arrived into the world (a couple of weeks early!) on the 31st of August at 9.23pm! She weighed 2.98kg and was 51cm long. We can’t believe how lucky and blessed we are to have this gorgeous little being in our lives! We are so in love and beyond happy!”
The incredible news of their baby’s birth is tinged with sadness as it was only a year ago that Libby and Luke lost a child to miscarriage.
Back in March when she announced her pregnancy, Libby spoke about the miscarriage to The Daily Telegraph.
“Luke dealt with it in a far more logical and reasonable way but it really knocked me around,” she said at the time.
“I was only eight weeks pregnant but you don’t realise how attached you become to the prospect of motherhood in that time. As an athlete I knew I had to pick myself up and move on, but miscarriage can touch you in a way you might not expect because there’s a possibility of a life.”
Congratulations to Libby and Luke.
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Top Comments
YAY - congratulations! What beautiful photos xx
Congrats to Libby. Lovely news.
Here's my concern with the article...is miscarriage a tragedy? Is it useful to call it that? After many years of trying to conceive I had two miscarriages and yes, both were devastating and heartbreaking. I just wonder if calling it a tragedy further stigmatises it. We all know how common it is and maybe we need to change the language around it for it to be seen as less taboo. We need to talk about it using more relatable language.
Tragedy to me is the unthinkable. Those children floating face down in the sea.
Maybe after years of healing time and two healthy children later, it is easy to forget the pain but I honestly don't think feeling like I'd suffered through a tragedy would have helped at the time.
What do you think?
I can imagine miscarriage especially of a longed-for baby can be a very, very sad unfortunate event.
However I do tend to wonder the same when something like 1 in 5 pregnancies end in miscarriage, even as someone who very much wants to become pregnant yesterday myself.
My miscarriage of my first baby, a daughter, was a tragedy. I will never fully understand why or get over it.
I think what you expressed - 'two miscarriages and yes both were devastating and heartbreaking' does describe a 'tragedy'. Miscarriage was 'unthinkable' to me so therefore was a tragedy!
As someone who had a "failed miscarriage" back in May - i.e. I was told my baby's heart stopped beating and 4 weeks later, still no miscarriage, so I had to have a suction currette.
I'm currently trying again, I've had 3 periods since then and I can tell you I haven't recovered from the loss. My period started last friday and the disappointment just overwhelmed me. I know it's only been a couple of months and as a normally naturally happy person, I spent friday and saturday in a depression, emotional and feeling just so "defective".
I feel like I can't move on until I'm pregnant again. It's not about forgetting the first baby, it's more about replacing the deep sense of loss I feel with something that we can actually be excited about. It might sound cold to some, but that's how I feel. I'm 35. I had to put babies on hold for 2 years because of cancer. Everyone told me it would be hard to get pregnant, when it took me 2 cycles. If someone tells me one more time to "don't worry about it, you fell pregnant in no time at all, it will again" I think I'll scream. I'm 3 cycles down with enormously heavy periods - heavier than I've ever had and while I might be "regular" now, I do worry that the procedure may have "changed" my fertility.
I never wanted to be a woman who stressed about falling pregnant but I already feel like the stress is there (self-inflicted but no less hard to deal with).
I suppose with all my ranting is this ... miscarriage IS a tragedy for some. It might happen a lot (up to 25% of pregnancies), but that doesn't mean it's any less a tragedy for the people going through it. I know time will heal and it's only been a couple of months, but I never imagined the loss I would feel deep inside or the sense of worry I have looking forward, feeling like I can't relax that first trimester in case it happens again..