Hilary Swank, 52, Is Pregnant! Actress Expecting Third Baby 3 Years After Welcoming Twins

Swank announced her pregnancy news with a video teasing that her "newest project" will arrive in December

The actress and her husband Philip Schneider welcomed twins Aya and Ohm in April 2023

Swank has said becoming a parent later in life gave her more patience and flexibility

The Yellowjackets actress, 52, is expecting her third baby with her husband Philip Schneider. Swank shared the exciting news with an adorable and creative video on Instagram .

In the clip, Swank's family dances with the lights off with glow sticks taped to their bodies. As her husband and twins dance, Swank appears with a baby bump featuring a tiny glow stick-clad baby.

"A lot of people have been asking what project I'm doing next, this one releases in December. 😉👼🏼🫶🏼," she captioned the video, hinting that she is due this winter.

Swank first became a mother when she welcomed her twins Aya and Ohm in April 2023.

While chatting with PEOPLE about her lobbying efforts for the California Bill AB 1901 , which calls for more transparency in diaper ingredients, the Million Dollar Baby actress shared she enjoyed her Mother's Day surrounded by family and that she's in a "really blessed position" to be able to spend time with her kids how she wants to.

Swank shared that it "just worked out" having her kids later in life because she can "be so present" with them.

"It just worked out that I had babies this much later in life," she said. "It wasn't that I didn't want them earlier. There were a lot of things that kept that from happening, and so I can really take time to be with them."

She added, "I feel like I get a lot of Mother's Days other than actual Mother's Day because of being able to be so present with them."

Reflecting on her decision to have her children later in life, the actress shared that she was much more career-driven in her earlier years, saying it didn't leave much room to tend to other things in life. She added that her acting career was "such a baby of mine" that ultimately she gave all of herself to developing her craft.

"I knew I wanted kids someday, but I wasn't planning what that would look like," she told PEOPLE. "I know it's so different for everyone, but for me, if I had had a kid in my 20s or my 30s, I think I'd be a much different parent than I am now."

"I feel like I have that more kind of ability to really give them my attention in a way that I wouldn't have as much at that point because it would've been pulled between the two in a very distinct way," continued Swank. "In my career being so established, I have the ability to kind of step in and step out when I choose, and that is just such a blessing."

Swank said she "couldn't have planned it" to work out the way it did, but she's grateful for the space she's in. The Away star explained that as an older mom, she has "much more patience and bandwidth" to raise her kids, adding other reasons why having kids later in life made her the best parent she could be for her twins.

"I've done a lot of work on myself," she added. "One of the things that I feel is important about being your best parenting self is having done that work, so you break any cycles that you don't want to impart on your children, and I've done a lot of that work over time, so I didn't have to do a lot of catch up with that."

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Swank, who mostly keeps her little ones out of the public eye, said that she still has work to do within herself. However, Swank emphasized that she's more equipped to handle whatever comes her way.

"I still do my work. Don't get me wrong," she said. "I'm certainly not a perfect human being. But, I have the tools in which to deal with those things at hand rather than having to go search for them while I'm in the middle of it."

Swank told PEOPLE she is consistently learning how to "be in the moment" from her children, noting it's not an easy task.

"One of the things that I've always tried and aimed for as a goal is to be in the moment, and it's much harder than one would think," she said. "My kids have really taught me [that]."

"First of all, there's no one more in the moment than them, right?" she added. "They're just that perfect reminder of that, and that I don't want to lose sight of that."