Congratulations are in order for Nneka Ihim.

For, the ‘Real Housewives of Potomac’ star has announced that she is pregant with her first child.

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Viewers of RHOP season 8 watched the then-newcomer open up about her hopes for motherhood and journey with IVF.

The 37-year-old departed the show in 2024, but her path to motherhood continued and now she and husband Dr. Ikenna Ihim (40) are expecting a bundle of joy.

Speaking of the baby, which is due in May, Nneka told PEOPLE:

“It’s so exciting. I’ve always wanted to be a mom and for so long, it felt like the vision of having the family I desired wasn’t possible. But now my dreams of building a family are coming true, and it just feels so special.”

“I sometimes still have to pinch myself, it’s so surreal and shocking. Even now I’m trying to plan my baby shower and I’m just like, ‘Wow, this is really happening for me.'”

But there was also bad news too.

Nneka revealed that she was initially pregnant with twins after two embyos – a boy and a girl – took. However, she learned that she lost one of the children. She shared:

“We showed up for an appointment and one of the twins no longer had a heartbeat. So that was really, really hard. I mean, the second I walked out of my doctor’s office, I burst into tears.”

Emotional, Nneka said of the immediate aftermath:

“I wasn’t really eating, wasn’t drinking, wasn’t doing what I needed to do to care for the one that I still had. Because to me, it just felt like I wasn’t pregnant anymore. I saw both heartbeats on the screen, that was the pregnancy. It felt incomplete once the other one was gone.”

“There’s trauma within the celebration. But at the same time, we’ve been through this for so long and God has finally blessed us with this pregnancy, so we’re trying to be very optimistic here. My doctor says the one we have now is very healthy and very strong. I’m more than halfway through, so at this point, I feel much more stable. After losing the twin, it’d be very easy to sit here every day like, ‘Is there a heartbeat? Is everything going to be okay?’ But I just have to have faith that’s not going to happen.”

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