EMMA & BEN 'WE ARE SO LUCKY!'

The 2025 contestants announce the arrival of their baby boy named Bailey

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The Block's Emma and Ben have welcomed their first child into the world, a baby boy named Bailey Colter Cox. "We're so overjoyed," Emma tells Woman's Day. "I was going to say he's going to be very spoiled, but he has already been very spoiled."

CHAOTIC BIRTH

Bailey arrived on the morning of Thursday, September 25, following a chaotic six-hour labour, with Emma saying it was "all systems go from around 11pm to 5am".

"When my waters broke, I went in for monitoring and they were like, 'Oh, it might be, it might not be. But we'll try and push you out because you're pretty early,'" she says.

Bailey was originally due to arrive on October 28, just three days after The Block's big auction day.

"He really just didn't want to miss the auction," laughs Emma, 33. "He was so determined to come into this world."

Emma makes a note to shout-out to her midwife Maree.

“Oh my gosh, she was like a real-life angel,” she laughs. “I love her so much.”

“I love her more than my own mum,” Ben, 32, adds.