Nico Rosberg has announced he has become a father after his wife Vivian gave birth to a baby girl.

Rosberg left last weekend's Belgian Grand Prix soon after the race with the baby's due date having passed, but tweeted a picture on Wednesday last week with the hashtag #NoNews as the wait continued. However, the Mercedes driver took to Twitter this morning to confirm the arrival of his daughter on Sunday.

"Our full moon baby girl was born yesterday afternoon," Rosberg tweeted. "We are overwhelmed and totally in love. Best wishes, V + N."

Rosberg also posted a message of thanks to the team at the Princess Grace Hospital in Monaco. He is now one of a number of fathers currently racing in F1, with Sebastian Vettel, Kimi Raikkonen, Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado all becoming dads over the last few years, while Felipe Massa also has a young son.

Congratulations to the Rosberg family from all at F1i. Here's hoping Nico heeded Grosjean's warning from the post-race press conference at Spa...

“Sleep as much as you can while the baby’s not here!" Grosjean said. "It’s going to get bad!”

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Andrew Lewin

Andrew first became a fan of Formula 1 during the time when Michael Schumacher and Damon Hill were stepping into the limelight after the era of Alain Prost, Nigel Mansell and Aryton Senna. He's been addicted ever since, and has been writing about the sport now for nearly a quarter of a century for a number of online news sites. He's also written professionally about GP2 (now Formula 2), GP3, IndyCar, World Rally Championship, MotoGP and NASCAR. In his other professional life, Andrew is a freelance writer, social media consultant, web developer/programmer, and digital specialist in the fields of accessibility, usability, IA, online communities and public sector procurement. He worked for many years in magazine production at Bauer Media, and for over a decade he was part of the digital media team at the UK government's communications department. Born and raised in Essex, Andrew currently lives and works in south-west London.

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