This Morning star Sian Welby has become a mum for the first time. Ben Shephard and co-host Cat Deeley shared the wonderful news that their fellow ITV star had welcomed a baby girl with her partner, Jake.
Before chatting to Sian via video link, Ben said: "Welcome to your first This Morning of the week, the music is playing because we are feeling baby love this Monday."
Cat then chipped in, saying: "We are, you can almost smell them," to which Ben replied: "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."
The mum-of-three then 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", reports the Express.
Speaking to her co-stars, Sian said: "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 then asked her: "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 responded: "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 highlighted that things weren't exactly "plain-sailing" as Sian "had to go with the flow for a little bit."
Delving deeper, Sian elaborated: "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 intended 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.