Peta Murgatroyd is pregnant!
The “Dancing With the Stars” pro, 36, announced Friday that she and her husband, Maksim Chmerkovskiy, are expecting a rainbow baby after multiple miscarriages and one round of IVF.
“We have a healthy bun in the oven,” Murgatroyd captioned a baby bump pic via instagram.
“It was a shock to all of us and we found out just before we went on our second round of IVF,” the expecting star continued. “This news has brought extraordinary joy to our family and we have so much to be thankful for 🙏🏻.”
Murgatroyd’s second child is due in June.
She and Chmerkovskiy, 42, became parents in January 2017 when their son Shai, now 6, was born.
The dancers had been vocal for years about their plans to give the little one a brother, but they struggled to conceive baby No. 2.
In June 2022, Murgatroyd revealed that she suffered her first pregnancy loss in 2020 in a Whole Foods bathroom.
“I was sitting in the bathroom crying,” the Australian recalled People’s, “It was something that will probably stay with me for the rest of my life, being alone in that toilet, knowing what was happening and not being able to stop it.”
Murgatroyd described having two additional miscarriages, admitting she felt “embarrassed” and “embarrassed” at the time.
Chmerkovskiy, for his part, was “really upset” by the loss.
“I never thought that two healthy, athletic people could be in a position like this,” he told the magazine. “It’s a lot to process.”
However, the couple felt “hope and positivity” after seeing a fertility specialist.
Murgatroyd, who had been diagnosed with polycystic ovary syndrome, underwent egg retrieval that same month to begin the IVF procedure.
“We retrieved 40 eggs 😱 out of 27 follicles,” she said told my instagram followers In June 2022. “A nurse said it was the highest number she’d seen 🤣 Cross your fingers everyone we’ll have some little Chmerkovskiys waiting for us soon!”
As of July 2022, the choreographer was in the “final stages” of the process.
Murgatroyd said, “There should be — fingers crossed — a pregnancy pretty soon.” told “Entertainment Tonight” those days. “This is the way for us.”
The following month, she revealed in a emotional instagram video That process was not working.
“This too shall pass,” she captioned the August 2022 footage.