“Selling Sunset” alum Maya Vander’s is enjoying her first month with her “miracle baby.”
The real estate agent welcomed daughter Emma last month with her husband David Miller, she revealed on Instagram. The couple’s baby girl joins their son Aiden, 4, and daughter Elle, 3.
Vander, 41, who was open about her pregnancy loss at 38 weeks in 2021, told People Wednesday she kept this pregnancy “quiet” because she “wanted to just make sure everything is going well and the baby’s healthy and the delivery is healthy and everything is fine before going public about it all.”
Vander joined “Selling Sunset” during the premiere season and was pregnant in Season 5. She left the show full-time after Season 5.
The Netflix alum added that she was “a little more cautious and worried” during her pregnancy with Emma “because I learned that you can lose a baby, no matter how far along you are, even if things are going the way they should be.”
“I was pregnant technically seven times between miscarriages and unfortunately the stillbirth, which is really the next level of a loss, and I have three kids to show for it,” Vander added.
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About 24,000 babies in the U.S. are stillborn every year, according to 2014 figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More than 3.7 million are born each year.
Following Vander’s pregnancy loss with her son, whom she names Mason, the realtor said she “wanted to get pregnant as soon as I can.”
When it comes to her bond with Emma, Vander said, “It’s just nice to cuddle with her while she’s so little. I really feel like she’s my miracle baby.”
The “Selling Sunset” alum first opened up about her stillbirth in an Instagram post in December 2021.
“You just don’t think it’s going to happen to you,” Vander told USA TODAY days later. “A week ago, I was still pregnant and excited, two weeks away from my due date and now I’m literally planning a funeral.”
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The real estate agent said at the time that she was taking things “one day at a time.”
“I didn’t know my baby. I didn’t spend time with him yet. But it’s still a loss and it’s still something that my body experienced and it’s a negative outcome, unfortunately,” she said.
Stifling a sob as Vander talked about her son, she added: “Mason was a 7-pound, 4-ounce baby. He looked totally normal, fully developed. Looked like his brother when he was born, looked like my husband – same face features. And I wish I could just protect him.”
