Elaine Welteroth Opens Up About Her ‘Redemption Pregnancy’ with Baby No. 2: 'Enjoying the Moment’ (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Elaine Welteroth.Photo:JOHNSON’S/Aaron Bernstein

JOHNSON’S/Aaron Bernstein

Elaine Welterothis committed to living in the present as she soaks up summer moments with her soon-to-be family of four.

“This time around, I feel so good in my skin, and that was just not something I could say the first time around,” says the founder ofbirthFUND, who is already mom to a2-year-old son. “I’m calling this my redemption pregnancy because the first one was so challenging and this one I’ve felt so much better in every way.”

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Elaine Welteroth.JOHNSON’S/Aaron Bernstein

The biggest difference between her first and second pregnancy has been the “incredible care” she’s received since day one.

Asked how she and Singletary have been preparing for their fourth family member, Welteroth reveals, “In a way, we haven’t.”

“We’ve just been so present for all of the special moments that we know are fleeting as a family of three,” she shares. “We’re savoring and soaking up these summer moments together as a family of three, knowing it’s going to be our last summer just us. And we’re not stressing ourselves out about what’s to come.”

She adds that although she just entered her third trimester, “we want to take it in stride,” because, “knowing what we know from the first time around, we realize that worrying doesn’t help anything.”

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The partnership felt “so organic,” she explains, because, “Johnson did a survey that showed that 60% of expecting parents feel overwhelmed when they’re creating the registry, and two-thirds of them wish that they had more help. And I was not surprised when I found when I saw that, because I remember vividly feeling so overwhelmed in creating my registry as a first time parent, and this time I just feel like I have so much more knowledge about what you actually need and what you really don’t.”

“The first time around you don’t know what you don’t know, so you tend to over-shop. You don’t even know what to ask for. So you put, like, a million things on your registry, and then you realize months in that these are things you ended up giving away,” she shares, relating back to her own experience as a first-time mother. “So many of those things you’re giving away because you don’t need them, or they outgrow things so quickly that you never even got a chance to use them. So I would say, cut the fluff, cut the excess, and just hone in on the essentials that are on this.”

“First-time parenthood, I think any resource that I can help provide to help make it a little easier, to make those transitions a little easier, is such a joy to be a part of.”

source: people.com