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She may make pregnancy look good, but Vanessa Lachey insists the path to parenthood is filled with its fair share of bumps.
For the actress, who is expecting her second child — a girl! — with husband Nick, one of her toughest moments came while pregnant with her now 2-year-old son Camden John.
“I felt guilty because everyone told me about this love I’d feel, and I wasn’t there yet,” she says in the December/January issue of American Baby.
“I remember asking Nick, ‘Is something wrong with me? I’ve wanted this my whole life and I’m forcing myself to have those feelings.’”
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But Vanessa, 34, recalls the exact day her sentiments toward her baby belly shifted. “For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy,” she explains. “That’s when I could finally bond, once I knew ‘it’ was a him.”
The struggles didn’t stop after she welcomed her son in September 2012. Vanessa — who has been opened about her battle with the baby blues — admits she was forced to take things slow as she settled into motherhood.
“Remember to be patient. It’s hard! As a baby, Camden would take about an hour to breastfeed. By the time he finished, it was almost time to feed again,” she recalls.
Instead of becoming frustrated, Vanessa used those quiet moments to soak up time with her newborn.
“A friend reminded me that infants are learning everything for the first time,” she explains. “So who am I to say, ‘Hurry up and eat. We have to go?’ I tried to look at that time as an opportunity to love on him.”
Now that she’s set to welcome her second child just after the holidays, Vanessa is more confident in her parenting role and wants other mamas to embrace the exciting moment in their lives.
“Worrying is a waste of time. Once Camden was born, certain fears calmed down,” she says. “I no longer thought, ‘Will I be able to do this?’ My instincts really did kick in.”
She adds, “We stumble and make mistakes, too, but that’s what learning is. That’s the beauty of it. Every mother out there knows what she’s doing, whether she believes it yet or not.”
Oh, and one more thing, she adds: Don’t let fellow mothers and their “best moments” on social media put a damper on your day.
“Don’t feel like you’re not doing enough when you see a mom posting about making applesauce after you bought it,” she says with a laugh. “It’s fine! Just for raising a little human being you should be commended.”
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Lions and tigers and … bling, oh my!
It looks like North‘s relationship with Lorraine Schwartz isn’t all business: the celebrity jeweler joined her young client for a day of play at the local zoo on Friday.
And proud mama Kim Kardashian, 34, took a turn behind the camera, snapping sweet photos of her little girl having fun.
“Zoo day!” she captioned a shot of a smiling North. “My little lady loves animals so much!”
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But while diamonds are a girl’s best friend — and Schwartz can take credit for the 17-month-old’s half carat earrings — it’s North’s Aunt Khloé that stepped in to dress her niece for the day.
“My little boo bear having a zoo day! I had to put her in #Yeezus gear! Lol she’s too cute,” Khloé wrote alongside a photo of North, bundled up in a black and grey ensemble, watching the sea lions swim.
The group then went on a walk through the rain forrest, stopping to take a quick picture under a pair of parrots. “Best aunties ever!!!” Kim wrote while sharing a group shot of North, Schwartz and designer Ofira Sandberg.
But the sweetest treat came at the end of their adventure: North’s first cup of hot chocolate — with whipped cream! — and a cookie.
“#AuntiesSpoilingHer,” Kim hashtagged the Instagram shot of her curly-haired cutie sipping from a spoon.
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Let Friday’s five clicks be the welcome wagon to your weekend:
There’s a miniature supermodel on the way: Coco Rocha is having a girl!
“We just found out Friday,” the mom-to-be told PEOPLE at a Autograph Collection Hotels and Atlantis Paradise Island event in N.Y.C. on Thursday.
Rocha’s daughter will be her first child with her husband, artist James Conran. They announced the pregnancy in October via a unique Instagram video that used technology to capture a pose from 360 degrees — the same system that Rocha used for the digital version of her new book, Study of Pose.
“Now we finally started shopping,” says Rocha, 26. “I had shopped for nothing, it was just one of those things where if you don’t know who, it felt funny. So now I know who you are, I’m so excited.”
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Like many eager and expecting parents, the couple has been going “crazy” with the baby shopping. “We can’t stop!” she shares. “I know sometimes you have to actually stop and work, and so in between, we’re looking at Gilt and Toys ‘R’ Us and Buy Buy Baby.”
The due date will be “in the spring,” but in the meantime, Rocha and Conran are busy thinking up baby names.
“We really thought at one point it was a boy, so we were working on boy names,” reveals Rocha. “So I think we have to perfect our girl names now!”
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