[Music] May Whitman is celebrating Mother's Day with a big announcement and she's enlisted some important people to help her flanked by her Parenthood co-stars Lauren Graham and Miles Heiser the actress revealed that she is pregnant with a post on Instagram on Sunday not to make a Parenthood episode out of it or anything but Mother's Day looking a little different this year Whitman wrote can't wait to meet you huge baby kicking my insides to filth # ruval 46 Seasons Whitman played Amber Holt on Parenthood Loosely based on the 1989 Ron Howard film starring Steve Martin and Mary steber developed by Friday Night Lights showrunner Jason cadams the series which ran on NBC from 2010 to 2015 followed the Braverman Clan including Amber's mother Sarah Graham and brother Drew Heiser in the final season of Parenthood Amber gets pregnant giving birth in the series penultimate episode now with life imitating art Graham is here for Whitman's own pregnancy Whitman's Good Girls co-star Christina Hendricks commented on her post writing I'm so happy for you Friday Night Lights Alam Scott Porter also commented on her announcement writing no I already told you but congrats ah Porter had a cameo in the Parenthood series fin Al as Amber's future love interest cadams told Entertainment Weekly in 2015 that he asked Porter to appear in the episode as a favor but that the actor was happy to do it as a fan of the show cams also revealed that Porter and Whitman's characters were originally set to have another scene together with their respective kids but that it was cut for time he's a single dad and she's a single mom and the two of them meet and it's the very first moment of them seeing each other cams explained and we didn't have time for that un fortunately but I think it still sort of lands Howard had tried adapting his own film for television with 1990s Parenthood which also ran on NBC and starred Ed Begley Jr and Jane ainson in martins's and Steen Bergen's roles but that show was cancelled after one season fun fact the cast also included a young Leonardo DiCaprio who portrayed Wen Phoenix's character from the movie and David Arquette who played the TV counterpart of Keanu ree's character in the film