Congrats are to ensure that a Actual Housewives Of Potomac alumna. Nneka Ihim and her husband, Dr. Ikenna Ihim, are pregnant with their first baby!
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The couple shared the information with PEOPLE, noting that their baby shall be born in Might.
“It’s so thrilling,” stated Nneka. “I’ve all the time wished to be a mother and for thus lengthy, it felt just like the imaginative and prescient of getting the household I desired wasn’t attainable. However now my goals of constructing a household are coming true, and it simply feels so particular.”
“I generally nonetheless need to pinch myself, it’s so surreal and stunning,” she added. “Even now I’m attempting to plan my child bathe and I’m similar to, ‘Wow, that is actually taking place for me.’ “
Nneka and Dr. Ikenna posed for maternity photographs for PEOPLE, that includes Nneka glowing in a SKIMS bodysuit whereas holding her ultrasound.
Nneka Ihim Sadly Misplaced One Of Her Twins Throughout This Being pregnant
The previous Actual Housewife of Potomac has been open about her fertility struggles and was seen on #RHOP going by way of intrauterine insemination (IUI), a.okay.a. synthetic insemination, which includes putting sperm instantly into the uterus to extend the possibilities of being pregnant.
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She informed PEOPLE that after two failed tries, she moved to in vitro fertilization and even seemed into surrogacy.
After the third spherical of IVF, nevertheless, she realized she was anticipating twins after implanting two embryos, a boy and a woman, however at her common prenatal check-up for the eight-week mark, docs informed her she had misplaced one in every of them.
“We confirmed up for an appointment and one of many twins now not had a heartbeat,” Nneka emotionally informed PEOPLE. “In order that was actually, actually exhausting. I imply, the second I walked out of my physician’s workplace, I burst into tears.”
She added,
“We felt so tremendous blessed after we realized it was twins. Right here it was, in any case that, and I had m coronary heart’s need: a boy and a woman. I stated, ‘My God, you actually got here by way of for me!’ My first ultrasound, we noticed the 2 gestational sacs with the 2 embryos there. The next week, we noticed each their heartbeats. After which sadly, for causes we nonetheless don’t even know, it was only one.”
Regardless of the great loss, Nneka and Dr. Ikenna are enthusiastic about increasing their household, and so they’re already planning for one more child.
“I do know this isn’t the top for me,” stated Nneka. “I’m already desirous about my subsequent being pregnant, as a result of I wish to have an entire household that we need and now I do know that it’s attainable. It might take a little bit longer than I anticipated, however at the least our baby will know that she or he could be very a lot cherished. As a result of we put up one heck of a battle to need to welcome them into this world.”
Congrats, Nneka!!!