Kristen Welker anticipating next kid by means of surrogate in June

“Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker and her partner, John Hughes, are anticipating their second child together.

“John and I are thrilled to announce we are welcoming a second infant to our household with the assist of a further remarkable surrogate!” Welker mentioned Tuesday on NBC’s “Today” clearly show. “We hope that our news gives hope to some others who are attempting to establish their very own family members.”

The toddler boy is because of on June 12 and will sign up for massive sister Margot, who turns 3 in June.

“Margot has informed all of her schoolmates that her dad and mom are obtaining her a little one brother for her birthday!” Welker, 47, explained, incorporating that her firstborn plans to title her brother Lolo. (The few claimed they have not yet picked out a name but have their “top contenders.”)

Welker, NBC’s previous main White Residence correspondent, created background last September when she grew to become the initial Black woman to reasonable the Sunday community affairs system extended anchored by Chuck Todd. The journalist has been open up about her infertility wrestle and her help for others who facial area equivalent situation. She welcomed Margot by means of surrogacy in 2021 and is functioning with a surrogate named Angelica this time all around, describing her as a “literal angel on earth.”

Welker and Hughes initial shared their surrogacy tale in 2021, which incorporated in vitro fertilization treatment plans for two many years and finding out that her uterus was not thick enough for childbirth. She has spoken to her daughter about her “incredibly unique journey to this earth,” conveying “that most mommies get to have their infants in their tummy, but Mama has a boo-boo, so she has a distinctive good friend who carried you, and is now carrying your newborn brother.”

The “NBC Nightly News” fill-in anchor and her spouse said they were established to give their daughter a sibling and begun “working on a second baby” in 2022. The process — which she explained as a “long journey” — was whole of setbacks and heartbreak and integrated losing embryos. But Welker claimed she’s happy that she and Hughes did not give up: “He has generally been my rock and I credit score our enjoy with obtaining us via individuals rough occasions.”