Cameron Munster's new revelation about wife after unexpected family news during NRL finals
The Melbourne Storm player was thrown by the arrival of his baby daughter seven weeks early.
Cameron Munster has revealed wife Bianca suffered a small complication that led to the premature birth of new daughter Blake, but mum and baby are doing well. Cameron and Bianca revealed earlier this month that Blake - their third child - had arrived seven weeks early.
Munster wasn't expecting his new daughter to arrive until well after the NRL season was done and dusted, but Blake couldn't wait and was born on September 9. Luckily for Munster the timing meant he didn't have to make any tricky decisions regarding his availability for finals games with the Melbourne Storm.
Speaking on Tuesday, the Storm five-eighth opened up about the new arrival and delved into why she had to be delivered so early. “She’s (Blake) in hospital for the next 10 weeks ... a lot of parking (at the hospital) at the moment, hopefully can get that back on tax,” he said.
“She’s good, my wife had a bit of a complication and she came a little early. But that’s life and they’re both good so no problems there.”
The Queensland and Australia representative said he's taken on a bigger role with sons Jaxon (two) and Jagger (one) while Bianca puts her focus into her own recovery and that of Blake. “For me I’m probably the other side. I’m sitting at home and spending time with the boys," he said.
“As much as I love going to see my daughter, it’s a bit of trek going up there and just sitting there watching her sleep. As much as I like to get up there, Bianca is probably more of the considerate one and has to go there to obviously breastfeed and do all that type of stuff as mums do. Once she comes home, I’ll be very hands on, but at the moment I’m just keeping the two boys at bay.”
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Munster will be pivotal to the Storm's hopes of beating the Roosters on Friday night, which will see them advance to the grand final. And the 30-year-old knows to expect some treatment from Roosters enforcer Jared Waerea-Hargreaves.
"That's Jared being Jared - I'm not going to sugar-coat it, I know he's coming this Friday," Munster said. "That's rugby league, it's a contact sport and you don't play it as touch footy so I know what I'm out there for and I know exactly what he's going to bring. I'm ready for the battle, I'm excited for it.
"We're one game away from giving ourselves an opportunity to create history as a group and we all know what's on the line. I'm sure there's going to be a lot of heated aggression out there on Friday night and it's just a matter of who controls it the best."
The Storm have fellow Kiwi Nelson Asofa-Solomona as their own enforcer who can give it back to Waerea-Hargreaves. But captain Harry Grant said he doesn't expect Asofa-Solomona to step over the line in any way.
"Nelson is so important to our team and we want Nelson on the field for as long as possible, we don't want him in the sin-bin or giving away penalties," Grant said. "But he's been so mature and experienced with the way he's handled the last couple of months, I don't think Nelson will be keen or needs to get involved."
with AAP
