Ben Shephard opened Monday’s This Morning with an exciting baby announcement. Ben and his co-host Cat Deeley congratulated their co-star Sian Welby, who welcomed her baby daughter, Ruby last week.
Before speaking to Sian via video link, Ben began: “Welcome to your first This Morning of the week, the music is playing because we are feeling baby love this Monday.”
“We are, you can almost smell them,” Cat chipped in as Ben continued: “The good bits, not the bad bits. We are kicking off the show with very wonderfully happy news. We have a new addition to add to This Morning.”
Cat added: “Yes, lovely Sian Welby has given birth to a beautiful baby girl. Her name is Ruby and she is absolutely gorgeous. Both mum and baby are doing well and Sian is kindly taking her very few precious spare moments to let us know how she is doing.”
As Sian appeared on screen, Ben and Cat asked her how she was feeling. She explained: “You know what? Yes, I’m tired, I’m delirious, but it is the best thing I have ever done and I’m just absolutely over the moon, I’m in love, and I’m loving every second despite you know it being absolute carnage at times.”
Ben went on to ask: “There is a big buildup and obviously, you’re pregnant for a very long time and understanding what it’s going to be like to hold your baby. What was that moment like?”
The former Capital radio host replied: “Oh, you can’t believe that you’re meeting them. Jake was filming me at the time when I held her and I said, ‘I can’t believe I’m meeting you, it feels like a dream’, and it did, it was just… I think the first thing I said to her was like, ‘Ruby, it’s me’.
“You feel like you’ve been chatting to them and getting to know them for so long like you say you’ve had nine months of getting to know this bump, and then when you finally see their little face and the character and the person, you know it’s really real.”
Cat went on to point out that it wasn’t “plain-sailing” for the TV presenter as she “had to go with the flor for a little bit.”
Explaining further, Sian shared: “Well of course, and that is where you know we have the most incredible NHS and they just look after you and I just said, ‘I will do whatever is the safest delivery for this baby, I just want what’s best for them’.
“I originally was planning to have a water birth because obviously, you can try and plan what you’re going to have but then it boils down to what’s the safest way.
“And in the end, I did actually have an emergency C-section. But I felt so safe, I was in amazing hands, and the midwives are just incredible.”
This Morning airs weekdays at 10am on ITV.