Elaine Welteroth Opens Up About Her ‘Redemption Pregnancy’ with Baby No. 2: 'Enjoying the Moment’ (Exclusive)

"Knowing what we know from the first time around, we realize that worrying doesn't help anything," she tells PEOPLE of being pregnant a second time

Elaine Welteroth is committed to living in the present as she soaks up summer moments with her soon-to-be family of four.

While chatting with PEOPLE about the release of her "Worry-Free Registry" she curated in collaboration with Johnson's and Babylist, the pregnant Project Runway judge, 37, who is expecting her second baby husband Jonathan Singletary, also opened up about why she's calling her second pregnancy a "redemption."

"This time around, I feel so good in my skin, and that was just not something I could say the first time around," says the founder of birthFUND, who is already mom to a 2-year-old son. "I'm calling this my redemption pregnancy because the first one was so challenging and this one I've felt so much better in every way."

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The biggest difference between her first and second pregnancy has been the "incredible care" she's received since day one.

"I think a lot of that has to do with having incredible care from the very beginning," the proud mom explains. "This time, I had a midwife from the very beginning, and it's the same team that got me through my home birth with my first baby. So I'm kind of hitting some of the same physical challenges, but I'm navigating them totally differently because I have the support and I have the tools and I have the experience of having done this before. So I feel really, really good."

Asked how she and Singletary have been preparing for their fourth family member, Welteroth reveals, "In a way, we haven't."

"We've just been so present for all of the special moments that we know are fleeting as a family of three," she shares. "We're savoring and soaking up these summer moments together as a family of three, knowing it's going to be our last summer just us. And we're not stressing ourselves out about what's to come."

She adds that although she just entered her third trimester, "we want to take it in stride," because, "knowing what we know from the first time around, we realize that worrying doesn't help anything."

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While Welteroth knows how make her own pregnancy journey worry-free, she's taken it upon herself to help give new moms the same experience. She teamed up with Johnson's and babylist to create a "Worry-Free" baby registry filled with her "tried and true" products.

The partnership felt "so organic," she explains, because, "Johnson did a survey that showed that 60% of expecting parents feel overwhelmed when they're creating the registry, and two-thirds of them wish that they had more help. And I was not surprised when I found when I saw that, because I remember vividly feeling so overwhelmed in creating my registry as a first time parent, and this time I just feel like I have so much more knowledge about what you actually need and what you really don't."

"So it was really fun to be able to put on my editor hat again and to just curate this list of worry-free items that you can just trust are tried and true," the previous Teen Vogue Editor-in-Chief says.

As opposed to recommending a bunch of niche products, like a "baby towelette warmer machine" she says she "never once used," Welteroth encourages new and overwhelmed moms to simply "cut the fluff."

"The first time around you don't know what you don't know, so you tend to over-shop. You don't even know what to ask for. So you put, like, a million things on your registry, and then you realize months in that these are things you ended up giving away," she shares, relating back to her own experience as a first-time mother. "So many of those things you're giving away because you don't need them, or they outgrow things so quickly that you never even got a chance to use them. So I would say, cut the fluff, cut the excess, and just hone in on the essentials that are on this."

One product Welteroth considers essential is the Johnson's Sleepy Time Baby Gift Set, because, "In my household, bath time is sacred," Welteroth says, adding that the Sleepy Time Gift Set "literally has everything you need to get through bath time."

She also says she "swears by" the Doona Car Seat and Stroller, after previously owning "three or four strollers," and realizing that she "didn't need three out of four of them."

"I think part of what makes us feel so chill going into baby No. 2 is that we have more experience, and we know what's worth the investment and what's not," Welteroth tells PEOPLE, "And I feel like I just wanted to share that with other parents who might still be in that stressed out headspace around trying to navigate this dizzying thing called parenthood."

"First-time parenthood, I think any resource that I can help provide to help make it a little easier, to make those transitions a little easier, is such a joy to be a part of."

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