Picture perfect: Honor Carter has tweeted this picture of her new baby's hand.

Dan and Honor Carter have welcomed a baby boy into the world.

The high profile sporting pair's first child, a son, named Marco James Carter, was born on March 28.

Honor Carter tweeted this afternoon, "we're thrilled to announce the birth of our son, Marco James Carter, born 28th March, happy, healthy & handsome :)".



A picture of the child's hand accompanied the tweet.

Ross Setford Dan and Honor Carter

The sporting couple kept Honor's pregnancy under wraps and announced the exciting news on Twitter last November when she was 21 weeks' pregnant.



At the time, Carter's father Neville said he had not contemplated whether the baby would be a future sports star.



"I haven't really thought about it. As long as it's healhty we'll be happy."



Dan became engaged to the former Black Sticks striker in October 2010 after several years of dating.The couple met through friends in 2000 and were married in Marlborough on December 9 last year.