Carson Daly Says Wife and Hospital Staff Are Heroes For Handling His Baby's Birth During COVID-19

From Woman's Day

Welcoming a new child into your family can be both and exciting and stressful experience, but for Today's Carson Daly and his wife Siri, there was an added element of fear. That's because their new daughter, Goldie Patricia, was born on March 26 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York.

"Having a baby in the state of New York during everything was pretty crazy," Carson said to his Today co-hosts on Wednesday when they reunited for the first time since March — maintaining a six-foot space between them, of course.

“I give all power to Siri,” Carson added, saying that his wife “did such an incredible job. I felt so helpless dropping her off at the hospital in Long Island. She was in her mask and gloves, and she had her go bag.” Carson previously said he had to drop his wife off at the hospital for most of her labor and was only allowed back for 20 minutes when his daughter was delivered, as the hospital was taking drastic precautions to minimize the spread of COVID-19 and keep people safe and healthy.

“It was like I was dropping my kid off at camp almost,” he said of the experience. “I just was kind of like, ‘Call me if you need me.’ I couldn't do anything. It was a helpless feeling, but she showed such fortitude.”

Listening to Daly's reflections, Savannah Guthrie asked, “Were you scared?” to which Daly responded "Every day.” And his worries weren't just about the delivery inside the hospital, he feared his newborn might bring the virus home with them.

“Hoping that this highly susceptible newborn child wouldn't wake up with (a) 103-degree fever," he said. "Meanwhile, she's bringing in so much joy to your life. So, there's these real high highs and low lows."

When Daly first announced the exciting news of his newborn on Today back in March, he shared similar sentiments, calling his wife a "superhero," and thanking both her and the hospital's medial staff for all their hard work that day and beyond.

"The medical staff and the work they're doing on the front lines, you don't believe it until you're there and you can see it," he said of his experience in the hospital.

Thanks to his wife's fortitude and the help of the doctors, baby Goldie, or GoGo as they're calling her, is home safe and getting to know the rest of her family.

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