{"id":299519,"date":"2023-09-29T16:40:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T21:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=299519"},"modified":"2023-10-03T16:19:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T21:19:59","slug":"dancing-with-stars-couple-miracle-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/dancing-with-stars-couple-miracle-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dancing With The Stars’ couple welcomes miracle baby after IVF failure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Dancing With the Stars” pro dancers Peta Murgatroyd and Maksim Chmerkovskiy got married in 2017, having welcomed their first baby, Shai, earlier that year. The couple was eager to grow their family, but the road to baby number two wasn’t easy. After struggling with infertility, they were thrilled to welcome their miracle baby this summer.<\/p>\n

In a new interview with Yahoo! Life<\/a>, Murgatroyd and Chmerkovskiy discussed the decision to grow their family. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t a discussion \u2014 it was just, \u2018Yeah, let\u2019s go!\u2019\u201d Chmerkovskiy. \u201cAnd then, it was hard to do, and it took us some years to get there. People said the adjustment is big, from first to second [child]. We don’t care. We value the moments differently.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the couple suffered numerous miscarriages in their attempt to have another baby, something Chmerkovskiy said left him feeling “helpless” in an interview with PEOPLE<\/a> last year. “It was crazy,” he said. “It makes you feel helpless. And for a dude like me, like all my priorities have completely shifted.”<\/p>\n

Murgatroyd suffered her first miscarriage while grocery shopping; her second occurred while Chmerkovskiy was on tour. “I think the darkest part is when the person you are in love with calls you and she says that she had a miscarriage in the bathroom, that’s as dark as it can get,” he said.<\/p>\n

Then, while Chmerkovskiy was in Ukraine, Murgatroyd flew to visit him; after returning home to the United States, she tested positive for COVID-19 and was taken to the hospital. That was when they suffered their third miscarriage \u2014 almost immediately after learning Murgatroyd was pregnant.<\/p>\n

“First, they said that, ‘You’re pregnant,'” he said. “I was like, ‘Well, this whole COVID craziness, the way she got taken to a hospital. I’m in Ukraine on the phone while we have nobody to look after Shai. It was a very difficult situation. But then I heard that we’re pregnant and then the next day I hear we’re not. And it was like, ‘This is crazy.'”<\/p>\n

He further added that he was a “changed man” due to their pregnancy losses.<\/p>\n

Their pregnancy struggles ended up affecting Shai also. “It was a lot some days,” Murgatroyd said. “Very emotional because I didn’t know what to tell him anymore. I told him the first two times, but I kept it vague. I didn’t make it into this whole, ‘Oh my God, we’re having a baby,’ thing. I just said, ‘Be careful with Mummy’s belly. She has a baby in there.’ I guess that’s been another really hard part of it because he sees other kids with siblings.”<\/p>\n

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