AFL star Gary Rohan is expecting a baby with his second wife Madi Bennett, announcing the news on Friday.
The Geelong Cats player shared the wonderful news to Instagram captioning the post: “Grow’n a Rohan.”
“Our rainbow baby is on the way.”
“What felt like the longest journey to hearing your heart beat, was worth every second to soon have you in our arms.”
“We are so excited to be your Mum and Dad.”
The 32-year-old shared a touching paragraph about his previous baby he lost with his ex-wife Amie.
Willow, his baby girl, died shortly after birth due to a fatal neural tube defect known as anencephaly.
“I want to take a moment to acknowledge those who see this post with a broken heart of their own,” Rohan wrote.
“A feeling of which I know all too well. When it feels like the whole world is falling pregnant, and you’re suffering unimaginable grief after losing your own, it’s the hardest post to see.”
Rohan ended the post by saying: “I just want to say to all of those who know this feeling, or are feeling it now, please know you are not alone. I hear you, I see you, I feel you. We are 1 in 4.”
The footy player went public with his wife Bennett in 2021, and got married in December of 2022.
The couple had a beautiful ceremony in a country Victorian town, Warrnambool.
He shares two daughters with his ex-wife, who he was married to for four years.
The couple broke up just months after their child was born.