Peta Murgatroyd Shares Story of Pregnancy Loss & Resilience
Peta Murgatroyd and Maks Chmerkovskiy are dancing with joyousness astatine becoming an aunt and uncle!
On Feb. 21, the pregnant Dancing With the Stars pro shared connected Instagram saccharine photos of their first meeting with baby nephew Rome Valentin Chmerkovskiy, whom Maks' member Val Chmerkovskiy welcomed with wife Jenna Johnson successful January.
Peta—who is expecting her 2nd kid with Maks—included a pic of herself, her hubby and their son Shai Aleksander Chmerkovskiy, 6, cradling the chap DWTS couple's newborn.
"Meeting Baby Rome," she captioned her post. "One of the astir peculiar nights for our families. New life, caller intent and caller joy!"
The 36-year-old added, "It's been truthful saccharine seeing the some of you @jennajohnson @valentin genitor this small angel. We emotion you each truthful overmuch XO."
Jenna commented connected the saccharine post, "Rome loves you truthful much."
She besides reposted a pic of Peta, her lad and Rome connected her Instagram Stories, writing, "We each cried this night. So overmuch emotion for this household of mine."
Jenna, 28, besides shared much household photos with her son, including a photograph of Shai sitting connected a sofa holding the infant, with Maks and Val standing down them.
Jenna besides included successful her station a video of Maks swaying portion holding Rome, writing, "Uncle @maksimc archetypal acquisition connected cucarachas."
The 43-year-old reposted the clip connected his Instagram Stories. "Uncleing is awesome!!!" helium wrote. "A wholly antithetic feeling I've ne'er felt before! Baby Rome is decidedly a homie! What a clip to beryllium a Chmerkovskiy!"
Last month, Peta revealed however Shai is taking to being a large cousin. I'm astonished astatine however gentle helium is with babies," she told E! News. "He held Jenna and Val's babe the different time and helium loved it. He loved holding the paci successful his rima and helium was conscionable truthful good."
Jenna gave birth to Rome—her and Val's archetypal child, Jan. 10 pursuing 2 years of battling infertility. Meanwhile, Meanwhile, Peta went connected her ain fertility journey, suffering 3 miscarriages successful the past 2 years, and began undergoing IVF treatments earlier falling large naturally. She is owed to springiness commencement successful June.
"I volition ne'er unbend until I perceive that heartbeat. I conscionable can't," Peta recalled to E! News successful January. "I look astatine the surface waiting for it to travel up. I conjecture that's what it is this pregnancy. And I'm chill with it."
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