--- title: Michael Phelps Announces He's Expecting Second Baby description: The Olympic swimmer and his wife Nicole Phelps shared on social media that they're expecting a second child to join one-year-old Boomer. canonical: https://time.com/4920983/michael-phelps-baby-two/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-29T20:58:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:55.106Z og:title: Michael Phelps Just Announced He's Going to Be a Dad Again og:description: Boomer's getting a little sibling og:url: https://time.com/4920983/michael-phelps-baby-two/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Michael Phelps Just Announced He's Going to Be a Dad Again twitter:description: Boomer's getting a little sibling twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Just in Time for the 2036 Olympics, Michael Phelps Is Expecting a Second Baby > Sponsored content. 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The family of three have been spending plenty of time in the water this summer, [as documented](https://www.instagram.com/p/BWDl5Lwgroc/?hl=en&taken-by=m%5Fphelps00) on Instagram, perhaps giving Boomer an early start at Phelps’s signature sport. Phelps also took to the open ocean this summer to [“race” a shark](http://time.com/4870480/michael-phelps-race-shark-week/) for Shark Week, but perhaps he’d do better to avoid risky business like shark diving with baby number two in the future. He recently celebrated his [one-year-anniversary](https://www.instagram.com/p/BXwwjPBgq8C/?hl=en&taken-by=m%5Fphelps00) of being the [most decorated Olympian](https://www.olympic.org/michael-phelps) of all time, thanks to his dominance at 2016’s Rio Olympics. As for soon-to-be-big-brother Boomer? His own Instagram account — with nearly a million followers — got in on the excitement, too. “So excited to see what mama is having!!” they captioned a photo of Boomer. That 2036 U.S.A. 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