Gypsy Rose Blanchard is one excited mom-to-be!
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is giving her followers an intimate look at her pregnancy journey.
One week after sharing the news that she and boyfriend Ken Urker are expecting their first child together, the formerly incarcerated mom-to-be, 32, took to Instagram to share a video of herself using an at-home fetal heart rate monitor.
Gypsy -- who is currently going through a divorce from her husband of nearly two years, Ryan Scott Anderson -- can be seen in the video pressing the machine's wand into her growing belly and palpating to try and find her baby's heartbeat and share it with her more than 400,000 followers.
"There it is," she says to the camera with a smile on her face after a thumping sound rings out through the machine's monitor. The expectant mother captioned the video, "Hearing our baby's heartbeat with a home doppler 💓."
According to Healthline, while fetal dopplers are considered safe for at-home use, it is widely believed that they do not work as well as the machines used at actual doctors offices and that heartbeats heard through the machine -- especially by mothers mere months into their pregnancy rather than in the second or third trimester -- may just be picking up the mom's heart rate.
Nevertheless, it appears that Gypsy is all too excited to see (and hear) her baby, even more so as she waits impatiently to find out the sex. The Lifetime star is due in January 2025 and has previously told her followers that she and Urker, 31, want to find out if they are expecting a baby boy or a baby girl as soon as possible -- through a reveal party, of course!
As they wait, Gypsy has kept busy by doing interviews to talk about her pregnancy and shut down any speculation over her child's paternity. She recently talked with ABC's Juju Chang and asserted that her pregnancy is only attributable to Urker.
"This is absolutely 100 percent Ken's baby," she told the reporter. Urker is her former fiancé with whom she rekindled a romance seemingly around April. That same month, she filed for divorce from Anderson, but she says they actually split in March.
Just days before her ABC interview, she talked with People and explained that she views the pregnancy as a second chance at life and a way to end the cycle of abuse she endured at the hands of her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard. Gypsy suffered years of Factitious disorder imposed on another (formerly known as Munchausen syndrome by proxy), which saw her mother purposely making her sick.
"All the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby," Gypsy said. "My mother told me I was never going to get married, raise a family, have kids or do any of that. So, to be here, standing on my own two feet and expecting my first baby, that's something I've reached as an achievement and a personal goal."
She continued, "I thank God every day that I am now having this second chance at life with a kid of my own."
Infamously, Gypsy -- after finding out about her mother was making her sick and lying to her about her health -- plotted with her then-boyfriend, Nicholas Godejohn, to kill her mother. She served seven years of a 10-year sentence before being released in December from prison.
In Gypsy's pregnancy announcement on YouTube, she strongly expressed her desire to give her baby a better life than she had.
"All the things that I wanted in a mother, I want to give to this baby," she told fans in her pregnancy announcement on July 9. "Knowing that I am a mother now, and I'm happy, and I just want to be a good mother for my child. I want to be everything my mother wasn't."
Gypsy has been mostly covering her life updates on her Instagram and YouTube since her prison release, but told ET in May that the end of her own public life is "coming really soon."
"I think everything has been very hyped up, and I've had wonderful opportunities, but I don't see those lasting, and I think there comes a time where I have to make a choice," she said. "And that is, when do I say enough is enough? And I think after so long of having my name in the spotlight, that time is coming really soon."
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