{"id":900177,"date":"2026-09-21T14:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900177\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:44:11","slug":"brownlow-2026-bailey-banfield-julia-edwards-announce-pregnancy-at-fremantle-dockers-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900177\/","title":{"rendered":"Brownlow 2026: Bailey Banfield, Julia Edwards announce pregnancy at Fremantle Dockers awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Fremantle Dockers player Bailey Banfield has announced he and wife Julia Edwards are expecting a baby at Freo\u2019s Brownlow event at Optus Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Banfield and Edwards took to social media with a carousel of sweet photographs and videos, featuring the couple dressed up in their Brownlow attire with a sonogram print.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Pictures of the sonagram tucked into Edwards\u2019 pearl-studded purse, as well as Polaroids of the couple showcasing her growing belly, also made the cut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201c5 months of growing our little girl\ud83e\udd0d First outing: <a class=\"css-445i33-StyledTextLink ezegcyi0\" data-link-type=\"article-inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/explore\/tags\/brownlow\/?hl=en\">#brownlow<\/a>,\u201d the post was captioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The announcement came just one day after Banfield, who has played one game for Fremantle this year, was instrumental in Peel Thunder\u2019s monster win over Claremont in the WAFL Grand Final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The 28-year-old attended the Brownlow Medal awards after he was nominated for the Jim Stynes Community Leadership Award through his work with the Starlight Children\u2019s Foundation, Worthy Australia, and the Purple Hands Foundation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/235dd62a801988fc2f884c32b4cfb40dccd43433-16x9-x0y137w2667h1500.jpg\" alt=\"Bailey Banfield and Starlight kid Nicholas at the Dockers\u2019 grounds in Cockburn in Perth.\" class=\"css-16r7l45-StyledImage en5ut4d0\"\/>Camera IconBailey Banfield and Starlight kid Nicholas at the Dockers\u2019 grounds in Cockburn in Perth. Credit: Ross Swanborough\/The West Australian<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Banfield and Edwards were married in a romantic Perth Hills ceremony in October 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The Dockers hosted their Brownlow event at Optus Stadium, as they are staying in Western Australia ahead of their Grand Final appearance against the Brisbane Lions on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fremantle Dockers player Bailey Banfield has announced he and wife Julia Edwards are expecting a baby at Freo\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[638,64,63,134,10124,588],"class_list":["post-900177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-fremantle-dockers","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}