Clint Stanaway and Eliza Paschke have welcomed their baby girl, and the name they chose is already winning hearts. The Australian television and radio presenter and the former star of The Block announced the arrival of their daughter, Stevie Rose Stanaway, in a joint Instagram post on Saturday, 8 November 2026, and the message that came with it was short, sweet and tearful.
“Stevie Rose Stanaway,” they wrote, alongside photographs of themselves with their newborn. “Our little girl has made her grand entrance. Mum is obsessed. Dad can’t stop crying.” Reports say Stevie was born on Friday, 6 November, with family coming together to celebrate her arrival. On Monday morning, Stanaway called his Nova 100 breakfast show co-hosts live on air to introduce them to his newborn daughter, telling them the experience had been “really surreal and been really beautiful”.
A family built on friendship
What makes this baby story different is the way the family came together. Stanaway and Paschke are close friends, not a romantic couple, and they decided to have a child together through a co-parenting arrangement. Stanaway first shared the news on his Nova breakfast radio show, Jase, Lauren & Clint, in June 2026, saying: “I’m going to be having a baby with a really good friend of mine, her name’s Eliza, and we’re going to be using a co-parenting model to have this child.”
Paschke, 40, announced her pregnancy on 4 June, writing at the time that she was 16 weeks pregnant and “feeling immensely grateful to be in this position”. Reports say she had frozen her eggs at the age of 32, and that becoming a mother had been a long-held dream. Stanaway, a former Weekend Today presenter who now co-hosts Nova 100’s Melbourne breakfast show, has spoken openly about the arrangement from the start, and both have said they will raise Stevie together as co-parents.
A joyful arrival after a long wait
Paschke appeared on The Block in 2023 and works as a producer, while Stanaway has spent years on Australian radio and television. Their decision to become parents as friends drew wide attention when it was announced in June, and the response to Saturday’s birth announcement has been warm, with fans and colleagues sending congratulations to them both.
For now, the new parents have shared only the name and a few photographs, and they have kept the details of Stevie’s first days private. What they have shared is enough: a baby girl, a beautiful name, a mother who is obsessed and a father who cannot stop crying. After months of waiting, Stevie Rose Stanaway has made her grand entrance.
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