Peta MurgatroydandMaks Chmerkovskiyare going to be parents — again!
“All natural, it happened,” the 36-year-old tells PEOPLE. “I didn’t even know I was pregnant for so long until I was really feeling sick. I danced throughDancing with the Starswith it. I started feeling weird, started feeling a little bit sick and a little bloated and I didn’t want to test for weeks.”
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After finally taking a test around her “six or seven-week” mark of conceiving, thePeta Jane Beautyfounder was in shock over the results.
“I think it was the fastest positive I’ve ever seen in my life,” Murgatroyd, who is almost 18 weeks along, says. “It just came up super quick and I was just shocked. It’s been completely different from my past pregnancy. It wasn’t like I jumped for joy and I shouted from the rooftops, ‘Oh my God, I’m pregnant. Yay!’ It was more like a, ‘Okay, well let’s see what happens because I’ve been through this four other times, and it hasn’t worked.’ So I was very skeptical. I didn’t even tell Maks for a while.”
Back in June, the couple sat down withPEOPLEto openly talk about their infertility journey. Murgatroyd also revealed that their son Shai, 5, often asked about having a sibling.
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“I guess that’s been anotherreally hardpart of it because he sees other kids with siblings,” Murgatroyd shared.
“I can’t wait,” says Murgatroyd, who’s due in June. “I need to know those things.”
“It’s going to be so good that I can just go around and not wear baggy clothes now,” Murgatroyd says. “I can get on social media and show my whole body. I’ve been doing everything from the boobs up.”
She’s also having fun indulging in her cravings, which include a lot of carb-filled, salty goodies.
“I have salt cravings,” Murgatroyd says. “Everything is savory. I don’t feel like ice cream. I don’t feel like cookies right now. I mean, that could all change. I just want bread and pasta and rice and all the good stuff.”
“It is just a blessing at the end of the year for my family,” she says, adding that son Shai is “over the moon” about the exciting news. “It’s just been a whirlwind. The best blessing for us, truly.”
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As 2023 opens a new door, the soon-to-be mom of two is grateful for a positive outcome after having a difficult year in her journey to conceive.
“I literally was praying to the gods about this, but it’s so funny because I was at a stage where I had let [the idea of pregnancy] go. I was about to call it. I had called the IVF doctor to start my second round again and I had let it go. As in I was like, ‘If I’m a one-time mom, if I have one child for the rest of my life, I have to be happy with it.’ "
“I think that was also a catalyst for me, for my body and my mind and my soul to let it go and to move on and not have this harboring feeling inside of me that I needed more,” she says. “And to just be grateful for what I have.”
source: people.com
