“Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker and her husband, John Hughes, are expecting their second child together in the coming weeks with the help of a surrogate. The baby boy will join big sister Margot, who turns 3 on June 12. “Margot has told all of her schoolmates that her parents are getting her a baby brother for her birthday!” Welker, 47, tells TODAY.
com . While Welker and Hughes are still working on a name — “We have our top contenders” — Margot has decided that she wants her brother to be called Lolo. “So we refer to him as Lolo in our household,” Welker says, with a laugh.
Welker, who is unable to carry a child, welcomed Margot via surrogacy in 2021, after struggling with infertility for two years . “The gratitude that I feel for her every day and that I felt for her in the moment that Margot was born is indescribable,” Welker told "TODAY" co-anchor Hoda Kotb that year . Welker and Hughes are working with a different surrogate this time because Margot’s surrogate just had her second child.
“She’s still very much a part of our lives and even reached out to our new surrogate Angelica,” Welker says. “We’ve become like this little family. Angelica is a “literal angel on earth,” according to Welker.
Recently, Welker has been talking to Margot about her ”incredibly special journey to this earth.” “I’ve explained to Margot that most mommies get to carry their babies in their tummy, but Mama has a boo-boo, so she has a specia.
