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- The Block‘s Lisa and Rosco are expecting their second child — a younger brother for their two-year-old son, Lando.
- The baby has been nicknamed “Wombat” and is due mid-October, just before The Block‘s Auction Day and finale.
- Filming wrapped when Lisa was around 20 weeks along, and she tells New Idea she suddenly felt “very pregnant” once they were home.
- They’re still deciding on names, but have joked they will name the baby “Scotty” if they win the auction.
The rules for The Block clearly state only two people per team, but it turns out this year’s Blockheads, Lisa and Rosco, have had a third teammate on board the entire time – unbeknownst to them or their competition!
The married couple are expecting their second child, and have now revealed the gender during an apt Family Day announcement!
During Wednesday’s episode, they gleefully confirmed that they will be having a baby boy – a younger brother for their two-year-old son Lando.
Recently speaking to New Idea, the couple gave an insight into Lisa’s busy pregnancy, revealing they went from The Block to building a new family home – all before their baby’s arrival!
“We’ll have two boys, and we’re trying to build a home for them and build a future and a life for them, raise them a little bit free range on the outskirts of Perth,” Lisa tells us.
“Knowing there’s going to be two boys, it’s like we’ve got our little tribe, and I’m very excited to build a life for them and watch them grow and flourish.”
Their baby boy is due in the next few weeks, before The Block’s Auction Day and finale. After Emma and Ben brought their baby to the 2025 auction, there could be another auction baby reveal in store this year.
While they are affectionately calling their unborn son “Wombat”, the couple joke that they will happily name their baby ‘Scotty’ if they win the auction!
During their pregnancy reveal photoshoot with New Idea, Lisa and Rosco reflected on the moment they found out they were expecting. Safe to say, it was quite a surprise.
“It wasn’t on the agenda,” Rosco, 38, admits with a laugh.
Lisa, 34, explains that a few weeks before she and Rosco arrived in Mount Eliza, VIC, to start filming The Block, she had been getting more car sick than usual.
However, she just chalked it up to her nerves about relocating across the country and leaving little Lando at home with family members for the first time.
“Pregnancy didn’t cross my mind,” the glowing Blockhead confesses. “I thought, ‘I’m not pregnant am I?’ And then I just kind of forgot about it.”
It wasn’t until two weeks later, when a stomach bug swept through The Block sharehouse, that Lisa was forced to see a doctor.
“The doctor told me I needed antibiotics and some steroids. Then he said, ‘there’s no chance you’re pregnant, are you?’” Lisa recalls.
Without her husband by her side, Lisa took a pregnancy test, which revealed she was roughly seven weeks pregnant!
Initially, she and Rosco were worried they wouldn’t be able to continue with The Block, but production was very supportive from the moment they were informed.
In fact, host Scott Cam was the first person Lisa and Rosco told!
“I walked right up to him one day and said ‘Hey Scotty, guess what? I’m eating for two!’” Lisa says.
“We’ve got an extra teammate now,” Rosco added.
Of course, it’s not the first time The Block has had a pregnancy reveal, with 2025’s Emma and Ben revealing their baby news during filming.
Lisa and Rosco agree that finding out they were pregnant made them even more determined to work hard on The Block.
The news didn’t change their approach to the competition.
“I think it helped me with my homesickness,” Lisa says. “Lando was a huge motivation for us, and our purpose in life in general.
“Finding out there was a second little baby on the way – and that that little baby was with us on this journey – made me feel like I’ve got one of my kids with me and that was reassuring.”
For Rosco, it “just made everything feel more real and meaningful”, he says.
“We’re mainly doing The Block to challenge ourselves – but also for our kids.”
“It gives you a lot of reasons to get out of bed,” Lisa adds.
While the couple says they’d been “all in” with their first pregnancy with Lando, this time around it almost became something of an afterthought!
“It was just like, ‘oh, we’re pregnant, OK cool, what room are we doing this week?’” Lisa says.
“The poor child, we didn’t really think about them as much because we were flat out into the renos,” Rosco continues.
It hit them very hard when The Block wrapped, with the duo saying it “became real very quickly”.
“We left at 20 or so weeks pregnant… and I was very pregnant all of a sudden!” Lisa says.
And Rosco adds that, “Literally, Lisa got off the plane from The Block, and it was right there!”
But Lisa insists that’s exactly how she wanted it.
“I had a job to do on The Block, and we wanted to give it our all. I knew that as long as our baby was happy and safe in there, their time would come – and it definitely has!”
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