Australian Olympic swimmer and reality television personality Emily Seebohm gave birth to her first child, a boy named Sampson Ryan Seebohm on September 11. She and her fiancee Ryan Gallagher both posted pictures of the newborn baby this week.
The couple were engaged in December, four months after meeting while filming The Challenge Australia.
Gallagher first came into the public eye as a contestant on the hit reality show Married At First Sight, where in 2018 he was paired with Davina Rankin, though the two split up before their final decision.
Both Seebohm and Gallagher have appeared on a number of reality shows in recent years.
Seebohm, meanwhile, recently announced that she would be pursuing a fifth Olympic Games bid next summer at 32 years old, less than a year after giving birth.
“You don’t ever give up on something you want, even if you think it’s not possible, anything is achievable,” Seebohm said. “So I’m just going to give it a go.”
The Australian Olympic Trials are now only 7 months away.
Seebohm hasn’t competed since Tokyo, but did participate in a national team training camp in February on the Gold Coast while 8 weeks pregnant.
Seebohm has 7 Olympic medals, including an individual silver in the 100 back in 2012 and an individual bronze in the 200 back in 2021. 3 of those medals are gold, one each from relays in 2008, 2012, and 2021.
She is also a 5-time World Champion, 6-time Pan Pac Champion, and 7-time Commonwealth Games Champion.
Babies should sleep on their back! Do people not know this in Aus?
it’s fine, the gravity works different down there
I’m surprised you didn’t also complain about Ryan’s tattoos. Voicing your disgust at swimmer’s tattoos seems to be your hobby usually lol
I don’t like tattoos, you’re right. However, they are not generally a risk to health or life.
That boy looks like he’s 25 lbs at 10 days!
I wouldn’t be surprised if they had a different name picked and changed it to Sampson when he was three times the size of the other babies in the nursery.
Congrats mom and watch out 2044.
She had him on September 11th .
(But the picture that Respect is referring to is from September 21)
Bro is named Sampson Seebohm
It seems a bit different that the child has her last name, semi curious about the decision making there.
Under Australian law, the default surname of the child of an unmarried couple in Australia is the mother’s surname. If both parents agree, they can swap that to the father’s surname.
Oh interesting, I had no idea!
I’m interested in knowing how Braden knows Australian law!!! Kudos.
As an Australian I actually didn’t know this. The norm is still very much to use the father’s surname for unmarried couples but good on them for doing what they want.
I actually have clients at the moment who are a couple and when they got married they both changed their name to a portmanteau of their surnames.
Sampson Seebohm is an elite name
Remember how the last swimmer with the initials SS turned out? He’s destined to be a champion.