After a long, hard road, Real Housewives of Potomac alum Nneka Ihim is finally pregnant. Nneka had joined RHOP in Season 8 and took viewers with her on her journey to try and get pregnant. The attorney was very open about her struggles in conceiving and trying different options, such as IUI, to make it happen. Nneka has finally succeeded and got pregnant with twins. However, she had to make the sad announcement that she lost one of them in utero.
Nneka Ihim says there is “trauma within the celebration” of her pregnancy
Nneka was a one-season wonder on RHOP. She did not click with her co-star Wendy Osefo and got into a feud with her over a prayer shrine. Then things got worse when Nneka accused Wendy of wanting to “embarrass her on national television.”
Besides her drama with Wendy, Nneka’s other storyline was her struggle to get pregnant. She tried IUI to no avail. But after she left the show, Nneka was able to conceive twins after three treatments of IVF.
Page Six reported the details of Nneka’s pregnancy journey. Nneka said, “The first round of IUI, which I did on the show, did not work. And then I did a second round that also didn’t work.”
She continued, “And I never wanted to do IVF, because for some reason in my head, It just seemed very unnatural. All those hormones and drugs … I was very cautious of it. But my doctor really encouraged me to try it, and I’m so grateful she did.”
At her eight-week doctor’s appointment, she found out the devastating news. Nneka said, “We showed up for an appointment and one of the twins no longer had a heartbeat.”
Afterward, Nneka spent several days in bed. She said, “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.”
Still, Nneka is focusing on being positive. She said, “There’s trauma within the celebration … so we’re trying to be very optimistic here.” Nneka is now halfway through her pregnancy, and thankfully, her baby is “healthy and very strong.”
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