Elaine Welteroth Says She’s Pregnant with Second Baby: 'This Is God's Plan' (Exclusive)
"I guess this is part of the bigger master plan," she tells PEOPLE
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Elaine Welteroth at the birthFUND Brunch Fundraiser on June 13, 2024Elaine Welteroth's family is growing!
The Project Runway judge, 37, announced that she's expecting her second baby during her remarks at the birthFUND Brunch Fundraiser on Thursday, June 13.
"This was not part of my plan. This is God's plan. But as we were building birthFUND, I happened to find out that my baby's going to be part of the first birthFund cohort. So, let's go! Let's go," she said at the end of her speech. "And Kimberly and Allegra are my midwives again. So let's do this, joyfully. Thank you all so much."
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Welteroth welcomed her first baby, son Silver Isley, with her husband, Jonathan Singletary, in April 2022. The two announced the happy news by sharing an Instagram video with moments from their pregnancy.
While speaking to PEOPLE at Thursday's event, Welteroth reflected on how her pregnancy is different this time around, noting that she feels "honestly so much better."
"So good and so much better than I did last time because this time I have a midwife from the beginning. Last time I didn't even discover midwifery until my third trimester. I didn't even work up the nerve to do a home birth until week 36. So this time, my experience of pregnancy has transformed because I have access," she says.
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Welteroth, who launched birthFUND as an initiative to help fund midwifery for new moms, also recalls how being in the "building" stages of the coalition affected her journey to being a mom of two.
"I think I'm just in such a different stage of life. My mindset is in a different place. I found out about this pregnancy when I was in the beginning of building birthFUND. I was building my team. I was making hires. I was working around the clock, literally 16-hour days, just back-to-back," she explains.
While the news was a "shock," the expectant mom adds that she "just had to surrender."
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"I guess this is part of the bigger master plan, and it deepened the meaning of this work because it felt even more personal," she says. "I'm like, wow, these families that we're supporting, they're going to be giving birth at the same time as me. We're going to be doing this together."
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