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Elaine Welteroth is going to be a mom again!
The 37-year-old “Project Runway” judge shared the pregnancy on Instagram with a video of the moment she revealed the news to husband Jonathan Singletary.
In the footage, their son, who was born in 2022, hands Jonathan a pregnancy test. His jaw drops, he smiles, and they share an embrace. She wrote in the caption, “Surprise! Jesus took the wheel (again)🐣.”
Welteroth also shared the news at the birthFUND’s inaugural fundraiser in Los Angeles on Thursday, raising generous donations to expand access to quality, life-saving maternal care for families across the country.
People magazine reports that during her speech she explained, “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.”
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Elaine welcomed her son with help from a midwife, and Welteroth later created birthFUND, an organization that advocates for midwifery care.
After Thursday’s fundraiser, birthFUND’s fundraising efforts surpassed $1.2 million in total.
After announcing her baby news, Welteroth told People how she’s doing. “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 went on, “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.”
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Elaine called the pregnancy a “shock,” but she “had to surrender.”
“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 said. “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.”
Learn more about birthfUND here or by checking out @birthFUND on Instagram.
