“We do have some breaking news this morning,” said CBS 6 Albany anchor Julia Dunn at the outset of the station’s morning convey Wednesday.

And she wasn’t kidding.

Dunn said that her pregnant co-anchor, Olivia Jacquith, had simply gone into labor.

“Olivia’s water has broke, and he or she is anchoring the news now in lively labor,” Dunn stated.

“Early labor, early labor,” Jaquith stated, clarifying.

“We’ve been timing her contractions,” Dunn introduced. “Two minutes aside?”

“No!” Jaquith answered. “Well, there used to be one, however it’s been a couple of minutes due to the fact that then, so we’re nonetheless in good form.”

Dunn made clear that Jaquith was once there via option and that she was completely positive to take over solo. But Jaquith wished to remain.

“I’m happy to be right here, and I’ll stay on the desk for so long as I probably can,” Jaquith stated. “But when I disappear, that’s what’s occurring.”

Incredibly, Jaquith kept going, and did indeed finish out the published.

“Three hours of news in contractions,” Dunn marveled. “I believe that’s a primary for CBS 6.”

In reality, it was once even more than that. Dunn shared that Jaquith’s water had broken at 4:15 a.m. And he or she stayed on the air unless 8 a.m.

“Confidently, I don’t see you day after today,” Jaquith said to close the express.

And certainly, she used to be absent from the next day’s broadcast — as she gave start to a baby boy named Quincy, the station stated.

“I wasn’t one hundred pc certain what was once taking place in the beginning, but I figured the time goes to cross both manner, so I’d fairly spend three hours advancing the tales of the day than nervously ready around on the sanatorium,” Jaquith informed the Albany Instances-Union. “Having the entire morning crew alongside me cracking jokes helped me get through contractions a lot more uncomplicated.”

Watch above, by means of CBS 6 Albany.

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