Savannah Guthrie is painting her nursery blue.
The Today anchor revealed Monday that her second child will be a boy. In June, Guthrie announced she is expecting a second child with her husband, media consultant Michael Feldman. The couple wed in March 2014, and their daughter Vale arrived five months later.
During the show's 8:00 hour Monday, Today tested whether a person can tell if a woman is expecting a boy or a girl simply by looking at her, using Guthrie as its test subject. Prior to filming the segment, Guthrie had disclosed the sex to co-anchor Matt Lauer. Colleagues Carson Daly, Willie Geist, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker all predicted she was expecting a boy. "I desperately want to teach him to play golf," Daly said, "and her husband doesn't play golf."
Roker bragged that he had a "100 percent track record" in guessing the sex of Today's babies, and Kotb assumed it would be a boy simply because Guthrie is carrying her pregnancy weight "differently." Plus, her co-host joked, "She's been watching football and head-butting people."
Kathie Lee Gifford and Tamron Hall, meanwhile, predicted she would have another girl.
When the time for the reveal came, Lauer held a blue milkshake and a pink milkshake in each hand. He asked Guthrie to choose one as her co-workers gathered around her. Rather than answer him outright, viewers saw a banner fly through the air that announced, "It's a boy!"
Unlike her first pregnancy, Guthrie chose to learn the sex of her second child—mainly out of concern for Vale. "I thought, it's already enough upheaval for a little girl to have a new baby. We gotta tell you what kind of baby," she explained. "So, baby brother is on his way in December!"
"Most people guessed boy," she added. "And I have to say to Matt: Excellent secret keeping." Several of her colleagues asked for her son's name, but Guthrie stayed mum. "I'm not telling! That I'm definitely not telling," she said. "You've got to keep it to yourself, but we're so excited."
Feldman is "so excited" to have a mini-me, Guthrie added. "He talks to the baby, like, 'Let me talk to my son. Attention, son!' We're beyond blessed to get to have a baby and to get to have a boy and a girl." Two is the perfect number of kids, too. "Hotel Uterus is closed!" Guthrie joked.
In July, when E! News' Sibley Scoles traveled to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Guthrie opened up about her second pregnancy and her busy work schedule. "I feel really good. I'm doing a lot of running around and staying up late and not getting a lot of sleep, but the baby is cooperating," she admitted. Guthrie even felt more "energized," much to her surprise. "I'll rest when I'm on maternity leave," she joked. "Who am I kidding? No, I won't!"
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