Nadia's sweet surprise:'OUR FIRST FARM BABY!'

The celebrity cook can't wait to welcome the new arrival and she reveals why it feels so different this time

- Fleur Guthrie

Spring weather may have finally made its presence known at Nadia Lim's Otago farm, but there's a wee snowball causing a flurry of excitement around the place.

Yes, there's still some of the white, fluffy stuff lingering on the hills, but the snowball Nadia is talking about is what her two young boys, Bodhi, six, and River, four, have affectionately named their new baby brother or sister, due in late summer.

As the culinary guru and her husband Carlos Bagrie sit down with the Weekly over a café lunch to share their exciting news, she's relaxed and glowing. At five months' pregnant, she is adjusting to her sweet surprise.

"I don't seem to be as big this time around and I'm finally feeling much better now," she smiles, before digging into a roast vege salad. "Up until 16 weeks, I was just blugh... constantly feeling like I was carsick.

"In the early days, I had citrus cravings and I ate a lot of oranges. And then there was about three weeks where I suddenly got very hungry all the time and wanted a pie! So I found a very good pie shop in Frankton and was there sometimes as early as 9.30am after I dropped the kids off to school."

Having recently been to her 20-week scan with her mother Julie, Nadia says that when the radiologist told them, "If you don't want to know the gender, look away now," she turned and closed her eyes.

"But I'm not 100 percent sure my mum looked away the whole time," she laughs.

"It'll be nice to have a surprise. With Bodhi and River, we saw straight away on the scan that they were boys. It was so obvious! "I think this will be another boy," she adds. "River is hoping it's going to be a girl.