Elaine Welteroth Describes Second Pregnancy As “Redemption”

Elaine Welteroth is currently pregnant with her second child with her husband, Jonathan Singletary.

The New York Times best-selling author is already a mother to two-year-old son, Silver Isley and described this go ’round as a “redemption pregnancy.”

“This time around, I feel so good in my skin, and that was just not something I could say the first time around,” the founder of birthFUND told PEOPLE. “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.”

She credits the differences in her two pregnancies to the “incredible care” she’s received this time.

“I’m kind of hitting some of the same physical challenges, but I’m navigating them totally differently because I have the support and I have the tools and I have the experience of having done this before. So I feel really, really good,” Welteroth noted.

She admittedly hasn’t fully started preparing for the newest member of their family, but is living in the moment instead.

The former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue shared, “We’ve just been so present for all of the special moments that we know are fleeting as a family of three. 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.”

At the inaugural birthFUND fundraising luncheon back in June, Welteroth revealed that she and Singletary were expecting their second child. Typically when people asked, she would tell them they were “one and done,” but when formally announcing the new “birth care movement,” she teased, “God [said] ‘Nah sis, you’re giving birth to a birth care movement & a baby at the same damn time!’”

Welteroth expressed, “Whoever this human is that chose me must have an amazing sense of humor! To be building @birthfund while building a human body has been one of the most POWERFUL and divinely (yet inconveniently) timed blessings. This holy little spirit has fueled the most meaningful work of my life and is already responsible for moving mountains from the womb! Can’t wait to see what you do in this world.”

She has not revealed the gender of her second child, but say she’s in her third trimester.