It’s been a long time coming. After seven years of trying, actress Dawn Zulueta and husband Anton Lagdameo conceived a child six weeks ago where they got married: New York. “I feel blessed, like God remembered me,” she exclaims. Zulueta has conceived before, on the first year of her marriage, but she had a miscarriage soon after. Motherhood, much like everything else in Zulueta’s life, is equal parts labored and charmed.

Fighting for her baby