Photo: Blayne Alexander/Instagram
This just in — NBC News correspondent Blayne Alexander is a mom!
The journalist and her husband Jay Bailey welcomed their first child together, daughter Sage Milan Bailey, on Thursday, July 1, Alexander toldToday.
As for her middle name, the moniker Milan is a combination of both of Sage’s grandmothers' names: Millie, Bailey’s late mother, and Annita Alexander’s mother.
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“You are everything I prayed for, all I dreamed about and still more incredible than I could have ever imagined,” she wrote. “Welcome to the world, sweet girl. You are already the center of ours.💗”
Bailey also posted a series of adorable photos to hisInstagrampage, writing, “Only ten minutes after you were born - you opened your eyes wide - looked straight into mine - reached out - grabbed my finger and would not let it go - and I promise you - I will never ever let you go.”
“You are everything…and everything changes now,” he continued. “I never knew love like this. Your name means wisdom - and you carry the honor and strength of both of your Grandmother’s names combined…Sage Milan Bailey - you are here - and our world will never be the same. You are so perfect…and we are so blessed. We love you.”
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“Sweet girl, we’ve prayed for you. We love you. And we can’t wait to meet you in July. 🤰🏽,” she wrote.
Last month, the journalistrevealed on social mediathat she found out about her pregnancy “exactly one week before Election Day.”
source: people.com
