Last month, the luxury real estate pro, 41, revealed to PEOPLE exclusively that she welcomed daughterEmma Reignwith husband David Miller.
Vander tells PEOPLE that after her “public"pregnancy loss at 38 weeksin late 2021, she wanted to keep the news close this time around.
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Vander says fans started getting suspicious as she posted recent real estate videos, but she waited until she was ready to make the reveal, adding, “It was just the right decision for me at the time.”
The realtor’s pregnancy with Emma — who joins daughter Elle, 3, and son Aiden, 4 — was “great” and “checked all the boxes.”
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“I did everything I could, the doctors did everything they could, to make sure we’re not going to have any problems again. It was helpful, having more checkups and so on.”
“People also joke to me that, ‘Maya is always pregnant’ but I say I’m 41 years old. 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,” she explains to PEOPLE.
“I knew that once I lost my son that I wanted to get pregnant as soon as I can. People think it’s crazy but again, it’s really easy to judge from the outside,” she says.
“When I lost my son Mason I was mentally prepared to have three kids, and it was very difficult for me to just let go of that,” she adds. “I could have said, ‘I have a boy and a girl. They’re healthy and happy. Let me just move on and forget about it,’ " she continues.
“My kids keep me super busy. They don’t understand what happened with the loss last year. We talk about my son all the time, but they don’t understand because they’re only three and four years old,” she shares. “But I’m very close to my family, and I’ve got great friends who have really been there for me throughout this process — as well as my doctors with all my kids. People have shown so much love and support and I appreciate that.”
“My daughter is very, very loving, very sweet. My son is engaged less — obviously, he was excited but he doesn’t do much with us because babies are busy eating and sleeping so he can’t play with her yet. But they’ve been great, and I feel that my family is now complete and it put me a little bit more at ease after last year’s loss.”
Celebrating the “precious” newborn stage, Vander also immediately began figuring out how to manage her personal life and her professional life as she shifts to being a mom of three.
“My kids go to school, I usually pick them up around 4:30. And once I pick them up, I’m with them until they go to bed,” she shares. “I just hired someone to help with my daughter four days a week for a few hours so I can do what I need to do with real estate, so I can be present both at home and with my clients. I think it’s very difficult to be a full-time working mom. It’s all about finding balance and the right limit.”
“I think I’m doing a good job, I’m not getting overwhelmed and I’ve been pretty good with prioritizing things each day,” she continues. “Some days are less crazy than others, but I think real estate is a great profession to be in as a mom because I’m my own boss and set my own schedule.”
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This summer, Vander will shift into mom mode, taking care of the older ones whenever they aren’t in summer camp while bonding with Emma.
She also hopes for a little downtime, to catch her cameo in season 6 ofSelling Sunset, which she left full-time last season.
“I didn’t even watch it yet because I don’t have the time!” she laughs. “I’ve got to find the time since everyone’s already talking about it.”
And as for a possible return to the show? “I’m like ‘You know what, guys? I’ll do a FaceTime,’ Maybe I’ll do more, we’ll see. But they’ve got to tone down this drama for me to do another [season]. We’ll see.”
source: people.com
