Orlando Pride star Sydney Leroux announced she is pregnant, sharing the news in humorous fashion on her Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Leroux and her husband, Orlando City striker Dom Dwyer, had difficulty conceiving their second child, with Leroux announcing she previously had a miscarriage during the Pride’s 2018 season.
To announce the happier news, she posted an image of her son, Cassius, crying in front of a photo of a baby captured via sonogram. The caption read, “Don’t worry Cassius. Mommy and daddy cried too.”
Don’t worry Cassius. Mommy and daddy cried too. pic.twitter.com/ZP2e3rGdsw
— Sydney Leroux (@sydneyleroux) November 28, 2018
Dwyer shared the same photo with an emoji featuring two fingers in the air to denote his two children.
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The Dwyer family faced painful challenges expanding their family.
On Oct. 15, Leroux shared news she lost a baby, adding her voice to Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month.
Leroux posted on her Twitter account that she joined the “I am the face, I am one in four” campaign that brings awareness to the many women who have a suffered miscarriage, infant loss or stillbirth.
The couple previously discussed possibly expanding their family during an emotional May interview with Lifetime. At the time, Leroux was unsure how to balance growing their family with trying to continue her professional soccer career.
She wrote, “A couple of months ago I lost a baby. I was naive to the pain of what this felt like. There was a moment when I was on bed rest where I wondered if the emotional pain could kill me. It doesn’t. I’m still here. Stronger than ever because I had an unbelievable amount of support from people in my life — the people who were there to pick me up off the ground … to sit there and cry with me … to feed when I couldn’t eat.
“I’m so thankful that I didn’t have to go through it along and that Dom and I had our family, friends and team rally around us during our hardest times.”