{"id":77508,"date":"2026-08-21T16:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/77508\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:16:19","slug":"afl-adelaide-crows-star-alex-neal-bullen-announces-birth-of-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/77508\/","title":{"rendered":"AFL Adelaide Crows star Alex Neal-Bullen announces birth of child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what can be described as a testy week for AFL fans, some positive news has emerged \u2014 another Crow baby has joined the flock.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Neal-Bullen and his wife Georgie have taken to Instagram to announce the birth of their second daughter Maya Neal-Bullen on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The joint carousel post features a black and white video of Neal-Bullen with his eldest daughter Zara as baby Maya lies on her sister\u2019s lap.<\/p>\n<p>Zara is seen planting a sweet kiss on the infant\u2019s head as their loving dad watches on.<\/p>\n<p>The post also features several portraits, including some of the relaxed parents, posing with all smiles at the camera.<\/p>\n<p>The baby news has been met with a flood of happy comments including from AFLW Crows star Ebony Marinoff who said \u201cCongratulations fam!! Born to be a girl dad,\u201d while wife of Rory Sloane, Bel Sloane said \u201cCongrats. Can\u2019t wait to meet her xxx\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Tex Walker\u2019s wife Ellie also passed her congratulations, saying \u201cCongratulations fam!!! Gorgeous Maya !! Xxx\u201d while Brodie Smith left a heart emoji under the post.<\/p>\n<p>Neal-Bullen and his wife welcomed their first child Zara in 2024, with the footy star also announcing the birth on social media, saying \u201cHer mum is incredible and I am so proud to be a girl dad\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In May this year, Ruckman Reilly O\u2019Brien and wife Chloe also <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adelaidenow.com.au\/news\/south-australia\/adelaide-crow-reilly-obrien-and-wife-chloe-announce-they-are-expecting-their-first-child\/news-story\/dcfe44f82275750984f431a6090e9d52?eafs_enabled=false\" target=\"_self\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"dcfe44f82275750984f431a6090e9d52\" data-tgev-label=\"news\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced that they were expecting their first child<\/a> in a post showing the smitten couple on a beach in Noosa Heads, Queensland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what can be described as a testy week for AFL fans, some positive news has emerged \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[83129,116313,116303,17327,116296,116323,95676,116297,116294,56681,116314,116330,395,116334,59068,116327,116308,116307,116304,116312,116315,116322,12948,116097,59072,9715,116318,116292,82151,39861,116317,116310,37355,116298,5518,116319,116325,20806,116291,212,116309,116302,116326,116332,116311,106,116331,30058,113659,116316,116293,116300,116306,69274,116290,116301,116324,37120,116305,116295,116321,116299,116328,39096,33415,116329,116333,116320],"class_list":["post-77508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-adelaide","tag-s-head","tag-s-lap-zara","tag-s-wife-ellie","tag-17327","tag-a-beach","tag-a-black-and-white-video","tag-a-flood","tag-a-girl-dad","tag-a-heart-emoji","tag-a-post","tag-a-sweet-kiss","tag-a-testy-week","tag-adelaide","tag-adelaide-crows-star-alex-neal-bullen","tag-afl-fans","tag-aflw-crows-star-ebony-marinoff","tag-alex-neal-bullen","tag-all-smiles","tag-an-adelaide-crows-star","tag-another-crow-baby","tag-baby-maya","tag-bel-sloane","tag-brodie-smith","tag-congrats","tag-crows-star","tag-friday","tag-happy-comments","tag-her-congratulations","tag-her-mum","tag-her-sister","tag-her-xxx","tag-his-eldest-daughter-zara","tag-his-wife","tag-his-wife-georgie","tag-instagram","tag-neal-bullen","tag-night-the-joint-carousel-post","tag-noosa-heads","tag-on-the-post","tag-queensland","tag-rory-sloane","tag-ruckman-reilly-obrien","tag-second-baby-daughter-maya","tag-second-child","tag-several-portraits","tag-social-media","tag-some-positive-news","tag-tex-walker","tag-the-afl-world","tag-the-birth","tag-the-camera-the-baby-news","tag-the-flock","tag-the-footy-star","tag-the-infant","tag-the-post-neal-bullen","tag-the-relaxed-parents","tag-the-smitten-couple","tag-the-world","tag-their-first-child","tag-their-first-child-zara","tag-their-loving-dad","tag-their-second-daughter","tag-their-second-daughter-maya-neal-bullen","tag-this-year","tag-wife","tag-wife-chloe","tag-wife-georgie","tag-xxx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}