"The baby is coming. The baby is... the baby is out."
April 10, 2018 8:18 AM Subscribe
Seth Meyers and his wife Alexi Ashe welcome their second child into the world in dramatic fashion. (SLYT)
Awww...
posted by Don Pepino at 8:52 AM on April 10, 2018
posted by Don Pepino at 8:52 AM on April 10, 2018
This happened to us! It's still the most amazing thing that's ever happened to me, and probably always will be.
posted by saladin at 8:54 AM on April 10, 2018 [11 favorites]
posted by saladin at 8:54 AM on April 10, 2018 [11 favorites]
I'm in McDonald's because coffee and wifi and I'm crying. Thanks a lot.
posted by theora55 at 9:10 AM on April 10, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by theora55 at 9:10 AM on April 10, 2018 [2 favorites]
That was a very classy set of thank yous at the end, as well.
I miss people behaving with class in the public sphere.
posted by leotrotsky at 9:30 AM on April 10, 2018 [11 favorites]
I miss people behaving with class in the public sphere.
posted by leotrotsky at 9:30 AM on April 10, 2018 [11 favorites]
This is so lovely. I love these late night guys getting all emotional on TV about their babies and their wives.
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 9:40 AM on April 10, 2018 [4 favorites]
posted by ThatCanadianGirl at 9:40 AM on April 10, 2018 [4 favorites]
Aw, that baby has his dad's dimple!
(Finding a new home, in Manhattan, with a newborn, is not going to be easy... I mean, would you want to walk through your delivery room every day?)
posted by Iris Gambol at 9:45 AM on April 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
(Finding a new home, in Manhattan, with a newborn, is not going to be easy... I mean, would you want to walk through your delivery room every day?)
posted by Iris Gambol at 9:45 AM on April 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
About to start my work shift, I'm glad I watched it quickly before, just a nice happy way to start the work day.
posted by Fizz at 9:52 AM on April 10, 2018
posted by Fizz at 9:52 AM on April 10, 2018
This is so lovely. I love these late night guys getting all emotional on TV about their babies and their wives.
Part of that may be how we've progressed as a society, but I wonder if networks, given the amount of dollars they've got behind their late show hosts, in order to maintain a more functional and consistent employee in a very high stress job, encourage (or even require) some degree of regular therapy for them. I mean, it'd be really cost effective use of dollars. Jimmy Kimmel is pretty clearly less messed up today than he was when he was on the Man Show, for example.
posted by leotrotsky at 10:10 AM on April 10, 2018 [13 favorites]
Part of that may be how we've progressed as a society, but I wonder if networks, given the amount of dollars they've got behind their late show hosts, in order to maintain a more functional and consistent employee in a very high stress job, encourage (or even require) some degree of regular therapy for them. I mean, it'd be really cost effective use of dollars. Jimmy Kimmel is pretty clearly less messed up today than he was when he was on the Man Show, for example.
posted by leotrotsky at 10:10 AM on April 10, 2018 [13 favorites]
oh wow, maybe it's because I'm 39w and 1d today, but I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard. This was so great. Thanks!
posted by john_snow at 10:43 AM on April 10, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by john_snow at 10:43 AM on April 10, 2018 [6 favorites]
Wow, what a roller coaster. I don't usually go from laughing-crying to just-plain-crying in the same monologue.
That dude sure does love his wife!
posted by obfuscation at 11:16 AM on April 10, 2018
That dude sure does love his wife!
posted by obfuscation at 11:16 AM on April 10, 2018
And a shout out to the Uber guy who still charged them! (You do know what it would have cost to clean the seats if she had actually given birth in the car, right?)
posted by dannyboybell at 11:18 AM on April 10, 2018
posted by dannyboybell at 11:18 AM on April 10, 2018
This is so lovely. I love these late night guys getting all emotional on TV about their babies and their wives.
I'm so cynical, I was thinking wow, poor high-pressure late-night-host jobs where they have to go on TV the next day so sleep deprived all they can talk about is their birth story.
posted by warriorqueen at 11:34 AM on April 10, 2018
I'm so cynical, I was thinking wow, poor high-pressure late-night-host jobs where they have to go on TV the next day so sleep deprived all they can talk about is their birth story.
posted by warriorqueen at 11:34 AM on April 10, 2018
"I'm so cynical, I was thinking wow, poor high-pressure late-night-host jobs where they have to go on TV the next day so sleep deprived all they can talk about is their birth story."
Because the show is built around the host, and the stars are booked in advance, what the hosts generally do (if at all possible) is go in for a day or two until they can get guest hosts lined up. Then they will take some paternity leave, divided up among guests hosts and hiatus weeks and so on. I've seen interviews with Kimmel, Meyers, and Fallon (who've all had kids during their shows), and with Leno and Letterman before them (talking about deaths in the family or personal illnesses), talking about how they feel responsible for the hundreds of jobs at their shows, and how they set things up so that they have guest hosts on call and they try to schedule hiatus weeks for convenient times, but they're very conscious about not wanting to fuck up 300 people's lives/vacation plans/work weeks if they can possibly avoid it, and not wanting to create animosity with stars and their publicists and make it harder to schedule those people in the future, and so on. So they really try to go on -- occasionally even recording a show after learning about a death in the family, and waiting to release the news until the next day and waiting to depart for the funeral until guest hosts are lined up or until they can personally call guests who have to be cancelled.
The Sunday-night super-fast delivery I'm sure made it impossible to get a guest host ready in time, so he'll probably do a day or two (or even the whole week) where he comes in last-second to actually record the show, and leans on the writing and production teams for everything else, and then take a couple weeks off with a combination of guests hosts and hiatus.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 1:18 PM on April 10, 2018 [16 favorites]
Because the show is built around the host, and the stars are booked in advance, what the hosts generally do (if at all possible) is go in for a day or two until they can get guest hosts lined up. Then they will take some paternity leave, divided up among guests hosts and hiatus weeks and so on. I've seen interviews with Kimmel, Meyers, and Fallon (who've all had kids during their shows), and with Leno and Letterman before them (talking about deaths in the family or personal illnesses), talking about how they feel responsible for the hundreds of jobs at their shows, and how they set things up so that they have guest hosts on call and they try to schedule hiatus weeks for convenient times, but they're very conscious about not wanting to fuck up 300 people's lives/vacation plans/work weeks if they can possibly avoid it, and not wanting to create animosity with stars and their publicists and make it harder to schedule those people in the future, and so on. So they really try to go on -- occasionally even recording a show after learning about a death in the family, and waiting to release the news until the next day and waiting to depart for the funeral until guest hosts are lined up or until they can personally call guests who have to be cancelled.
The Sunday-night super-fast delivery I'm sure made it impossible to get a guest host ready in time, so he'll probably do a day or two (or even the whole week) where he comes in last-second to actually record the show, and leans on the writing and production teams for everything else, and then take a couple weeks off with a combination of guests hosts and hiatus.
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 1:18 PM on April 10, 2018 [16 favorites]
A sweetly told story that brings me back to the home births of my two kids. I too got choked up thinking about my own bravery during those tough times.
posted by GuyZero at 1:53 PM on April 10, 2018 [3 favorites]
posted by GuyZero at 1:53 PM on April 10, 2018 [3 favorites]
This is great! I'm surprised that they didn't warn her that this was a possibility--second labors tend to be even faster, and a woman whose had one precipitous labor is at a high risk for this! I knew a woman who planned a homebirth for her second not because she necessarily wanted one but because her first labor only took 2 hours.
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 2:25 PM on April 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by PhoBWanKenobi at 2:25 PM on April 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
I think my favorite detail is that he's wearing a hospital bracelet on his right wrist, because clearly Mrs Meyers and Axel are still at the hospital.
posted by uberchet at 2:49 PM on April 10, 2018 [14 favorites]
posted by uberchet at 2:49 PM on April 10, 2018 [14 favorites]
The Sunday-night super-fast delivery I'm sure made it impossible to get a guest host ready in time,
Amber says "What?"
posted by Guy Smiley at 3:22 PM on April 10, 2018 [9 favorites]
Amber says "What?"
posted by Guy Smiley at 3:22 PM on April 10, 2018 [9 favorites]
I'm surprised that they didn't warn her that this was a possibility
I was thinking that, too! Everyone sounded awfully cavalier about a very likely repeat precipitous labor. I know more than one woman with a history of precipitous labors and they all developed contingencies out the wazoo for the very likely event of Surprise Birth 2: This Time Even Surprisier, including scheduled inductions for those who lived far enough away from the hospital that a roadside unaccompanied birth seemed a good possibility.
This was a great story wonderfully told, though. I pay almost no attention to late night anything (hello I'm in bed) but I've developed a real soft spot for Seth Meyers over the past couple of years.
posted by soren_lorensen at 3:32 PM on April 10, 2018 [4 favorites]
I was thinking that, too! Everyone sounded awfully cavalier about a very likely repeat precipitous labor. I know more than one woman with a history of precipitous labors and they all developed contingencies out the wazoo for the very likely event of Surprise Birth 2: This Time Even Surprisier, including scheduled inductions for those who lived far enough away from the hospital that a roadside unaccompanied birth seemed a good possibility.
This was a great story wonderfully told, though. I pay almost no attention to late night anything (hello I'm in bed) but I've developed a real soft spot for Seth Meyers over the past couple of years.
posted by soren_lorensen at 3:32 PM on April 10, 2018 [4 favorites]
I'm surprised that they didn't warn her that this was a possibility
I was thinking that, too! Everyone sounded awfully cavalier about a very likely repeat precipitous labor.
We had a precipitous with #2. With #3 we told everybody at the hospital repeatedly of this to make sure they were prepared.
A nurse delivered our baby. The doctor didn't get there in time.
posted by leotrotsky at 8:02 PM on April 10, 2018
I was thinking that, too! Everyone sounded awfully cavalier about a very likely repeat precipitous labor.
We had a precipitous with #2. With #3 we told everybody at the hospital repeatedly of this to make sure they were prepared.
A nurse delivered our baby. The doctor didn't get there in time.
posted by leotrotsky at 8:02 PM on April 10, 2018
My wife's 2 labors were 50 hrs and 36 hours, respectively. She would've loved for this to have happened.
posted by Chuffy at 9:18 PM on April 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by Chuffy at 9:18 PM on April 10, 2018 [1 favorite]
I watched this last night as I sat on the kitchen floor with our old dog on what I was sure was going to be her final night with us, and got all weepy and sentimental about the circle of life. A lovely story and a lovely guy.
posted by Sweetie Darling at 9:08 AM on April 11, 2018
posted by Sweetie Darling at 9:08 AM on April 11, 2018
That was a very classy set of thank yous at the end, as well.
Indeed. Including that "fuck you to Uber driver who still charged us." I LOL'ed.
posted by rabbitrabbit at 11:24 AM on April 11, 2018
Indeed. Including that "fuck you to Uber driver who still charged us." I LOL'ed.
posted by rabbitrabbit at 11:24 AM on April 11, 2018
My stepmom pushed twice for sister 1, once for sister 2. She barely had time to get out of the car the second time!
I think that's so amazing when insta-labor happens. Any good labor stories are impressive, really. And I know several women with multiple kids and home births, they were all super chill about it and that seemed to help.
Sister 2 is now expecting her first child, and I pray she has the same swift/easy labor! She had cancer and radiation 14 years ago, so we never expected this blessing. Life is such a miracle.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 5:44 PM on April 12, 2018
I think that's so amazing when insta-labor happens. Any good labor stories are impressive, really. And I know several women with multiple kids and home births, they were all super chill about it and that seemed to help.
Sister 2 is now expecting her first child, and I pray she has the same swift/easy labor! She had cancer and radiation 14 years ago, so we never expected this blessing. Life is such a miracle.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 5:44 PM on April 12, 2018
Seth Meyers is indeed on hiatus this week and it's driving me crazy!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:31 PM on April 20, 2018
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 8:31 PM on April 20, 2018
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