Auntie Ehim pregnant With her and her husband doctor. Ikenna IhimHer first child, but it's a “bittersweet” celebration.
The Real Housewives of Potomac The 37-year-old star announced her pregnancy on Wednesday, January 22, and revealed her due date is in May. While Nika said the people She “always wanted to be a mother” and her path to a successful pregnancy was not easy.
Nika explained next Trying to get pregnant For two years, including three rounds of in vitro fertilization (IVF), she knew she would have twins.
The Bravo star had two embryos, a boy and a girl, that implanted at the same time, but at her eight-week scan, Nika was told she had lost one of the babies.
“We came in for an appointment, and one of the twins no longer had a heartbeat,” Nika recalls. “So it was really hard. I mean, the minute I walked out of my doctor's office, I just burst into tears.”
Nika explained that the next four days were the most difficult, noting that she “felt incomplete” when she was no longer carrying twins.
“There is trauma in celebrating,” she admitted. “But at the same time, we've been through this for a long time and we've finally been blessed with this pregnancy, so we're trying to be very optimistic here.”
It's been a tough road to parenthood for many celebrity parents, including Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. After in vitro fertilization didn't work on the first try, Teigen wondered if she had done something wrong. “You're just looking for anything to blame, especially yourself,” Teigen explained to The Cut in April (…)
More than halfway through her pregnancy, Nika said she feels “more stable” and that her baby is “very healthy and very strong,” according to her doctors.
Nika made it RHOP First time During season 8 in 2023. From the beginning, she took fans on her fertility journey, which included two rounds of intrauterine insemination (IUI) before turning to IVF. (I walked off the Bravo show After one season.)
The ups and downs led Nika and her husband, whom she married in August 2021, To consider surrogacy And additional options. In September 2024, the couple decided to try IVF again without any expectations, and the experiment was a success.
“Until that moment, I had been feeling a lot of anxiety, but on that tour, I didn’t put any pressure on myself,” Nika recalls. the people. “I was in a very calm mindset; Much more than worry. I even went to Paris with my friends. The next thing I knew, I found out the good news: I was pregnant.”
Brian Stukes/Getty Images Real Housewives of Potomac star Candace Dillard Bassett is pregnant and expecting her first child with husband Chris Bassett. “I'm about 13 weeks along…so I'm about to go into my second trimester. It's been weird, but also nice, I think, to keep it to ourselves at this point,” Dillard Bassett, (…)
Although Nneka is still reeling from the loss of one of her two pregnancies, she said she has had an “incredible” support system in Ikenna, 40, and is ready to become a mother.
“He's so thrilled. “He can't wait for this baby to come,” she gushed of her husband. “It's a dream come true for both of us.”
“Sometimes I still have to push myself, it's very surreal and shocking,” Nica revealed. She added that even fun things don't seem real. “Even now I try to plan my baby shower and I'm like, 'Wow, this is really happening for me,'” she said.
