It only took one try for the former Nickelodeon star — who’s expecting her first child with fiancéAndrew Gardner— to get pregnant. As she explains, “I was really adamant about tracking my ovulation with theClearblue Connected Ovulation Test Systemand got pretty good at that, so I knew exactly when we tried there was a really solid chance it could happen.”
As soon as she experienced heart-racing symptoms, she had a hunch and ran to the bathroom. Sure enough,the test was positive, and Monet immediately drove to Gardner’s workplace to surprise him with the good news.
“I got there and just said, ‘I got you a coffee’ and I stuck the test in the coffee cup,” recalls Monet, 30. “I was shaking, I was laughing, my smile was so enormous that my face was sore for a while after.”
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Gardner, 31, was just as excited, the mom-to-be adds: “He’s such a kids guy. He’s impatient. He’swanted to start a family fora while.”
But unlike Monet, he has been just as impatient to find out whether the new member of the family will be a girl or boy. Although they got the sex-reveal envelope a month ago, Monet has been determined to wait until she’s halfway through her pregnancy, in mid-May, to open it.
Gardner, on the other hand, “cannot wait — he thinks he’s goingto start working on the nurserytomorrow. I had to hide the envelope from him!” she tells PEOPLE.
“It’s just something about a boy,” she says. “I grew up around a lot of guys in the neighborhood; I was probably one of the only girls. I also had a little brother who is still, to this day, like my kid, and I just have a lot of experience with boys. If it’s a girl it will be a very new experience, which I actually look forward to,but if it’s a boy, I think I’m ready.”
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“I reallyfell in love with Tulum, Mexico, and that’s the kind of style of our home and backyard,” she tells PEOPLE. “I just want to feel comfortable and wear something flowy, and I imagine there being a Tulum atmosphere around me.”
The bash is looking like it’ll be a big one, as the guest list is already over 100 people. The one downside to having so many loved ones around? Fierce competition to be godparents.
Her focus on health and wellness is one of the reasons why Monet says she isplanning on a natural water birth: “I’m pretty healthy and mindful of my body. I’ve never been much of a doctor person, so I would want to try and do a birth as natural as possible!”
source: people.com
