Kristen Welker Caught Her Baby As She Was Delivered by Surrogate

Kristen Welker Caught Her Baby As She Was Delivered by Surrogate

  • Kristen Welker worried her maternal instinct wouldn’t kick in when her baby was born via surrogate.
  • Hoda Kotb told her that she was relieved to find out her baby was in their delivery room.
  • “Feeling her beautiful, incredible being, was really the most magical moment of my entire life,” She laughed.

Leading up to her daughter’s birth via surrogate in June, Kristen Welker carried a “little seed of self doubt.”

She wondered: “Will I have that maternal instinct? Will it kick in if I haven’t carried her?” the NBC News chief White House correspondent said Monday on The Hoda Show on SiriusXM Today Show Radio.

That concern faded when Welker (45) was informed by doctors that she could assist in the delivery of her baby.

“First I said, ‘Am I going to know what to do? Are you sure I can do this?'” Hoda Kolb interviewed Welker. But clinicians told Welker they’d guide her, and reassured her, saying “your hands will literally be the first thing that [the baby] feels when she arrives into this new world.”

“And so, as she was being born, I stretched my hands out, and that moment feeling her beautiful, incredible being, was really the most magical moment of my entire life and in that moment for all of that self doubt went away,” Welker said.

“And then all I felt was this bond, and this overwhelming sense of love and connection that I have, you know, never felt for another human being before and it was incredible. It was a blessing.”

Welker and her husband John Hughes named their daughter Margot Lane Welker Hughes.

Welker and her husband struggled with infertility before deciding to use a surrogate

Welker was 40 when she and Hughes married, and they started trying to conceive right away. However, she was unsuccessful in getting pregnant. A doctor recommended in vitro fertilation. Welker was told her uterus’ lining was too thin, and that this didn’t work.

“I was going into the doctor in between live shots at work and just feeling like … a failure, frankly,” Welker said on Today in April.

After two years of considering options including adoption, Welker & Hughes finally decided to surrogacy. This is when Hughes and Welker have another person carry the embryo that Hughes and Welker created. Although the first embryo transfer did not go through, Welker, who moderated the presidential debate in Oct 2020, knew that she was expecting.

“I have an incredible relationship with my surrogate, and we did from the first moment that we met,” Welker shared this with Kotb. “She made it very clear that this was her lifelong dream.”

The surrogate was doing “very well” after the childbirth, NBC reported.

In the delivery room, “I asked her repeatedly, ‘How are you doing? How are you feeling?,’ and she said, ‘Honestly, looking at Margot, and holding her … really, it made the entire journey worth it,'” Welker told Kotb. The surrogate continued: “Looking at the love that you and John share with her is the only thanks I need.”

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