With her co-presenter as her birthing partner!

<p>Having a baby is a very exciting time for any mother, but most of the time we can roughly plan for when the day comes, and ensure we are somewhere comfortable when the waters break.</p><p>But BBC Breakfast's business news presenter Victoria Fritz had only just come off the air when her baby decided to make his arrival &ndash; a few weeks earlier than planned.</p><p>The business news presenter was on-air one minute, talking about easyJet's latest figures, then went into labour the next, shortly after filming.</p><p>Fortunately her team were around to help, and her fellow presenter Sally Nugent accompanied her to St Mary's Hospital in Manchester.</p><p>When Sally heard that Victoria&rsquo;s husband was still stuck in traffic on the M6 motorway, she said she would stay with her at the hospital until he arrived.</p><p>But her husband wasn&rsquo;t able to arrive on time so she found herself at the birth, and Sally ended up being birthing partner for the arrival of her son.</p><p>The baby had been due to arrive in early December.</p><p>In a tweet, Fritz told of her "heartfelt thanks" to Nugent and hospital medics:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">My heartfelt thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/sallynugent">@sallynugent</a> & St Mary's drs&midwives who helped me deliver my little boy yesterday. A <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast">@BBCBreakfast</a> team effort! ����</p>— Victoria Fritz (@VFritzNews) <a href="https://twitter.com/VFritzNews/status/798768584813985792">November 16, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Also writing on Twitter, Nugent gave her "huge congrats" to Fritz:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">You won't believe what happened after work yesterday. Huge congrats to our very clever <a href="https://twitter.com/VFritzNews">@VFritzNews</a> �� <a href="https://t.co/PYs29p8CaJ">https://t.co/PYs29p8CaJ</a></p>— sally nugent (@sallynugent) <a href="https://twitter.com/sallynugent/status/798778707968045056">November 16, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker joked that he did not think all viewer suggestions for baby names were appropriate:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Thank you for all your suggestions for baby names for <a href="https://twitter.com/VFritzNews">@VFritzNews</a> but I think Baby McBabyFace might not make the grade <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast">@BBCBreakfast</a> ����</p>— Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) <a href="https://twitter.com/mrdanwalker/status/798817521700773890">November 16, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>And BBC Breakfast shared pictures on Twitter of the new mother and baby in hospital:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Congratulations <a href="https://twitter.com/VFritzNews">@VFritzNews</a>! Victoria should have been our biz presenter today - but instead has some more exciting news to deliver! <a href="https://t.co/LBv75ucony">pic.twitter.com/LBv75ucony</a></p>— BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) <a href="https://twitter.com/BBCBreakfast/status/798771722728050688">November 16, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Sally Nugent also shared a picture of the baby boy on Twitter:</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Here is the man of the moment. Five minutes old and blissfully unaware of the drama he'd caused his mum <a href="https://twitter.com/VFritzNews">@VFritzNews</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/babyfritzy?src=hash">#babyfritzy</a> ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/DPkvTC2VrS">pic.twitter.com/DPkvTC2VrS</a></p>— sally nugent (@sallynugent) <a href="https://twitter.com/sallynugent/status/798902936424345600">November 16, 2016</a></blockquote><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><p>Aww.</p>

BBC presenter Victoria Fritz goes into labour just after going live on air

By Asda Good Living,17th November 2016

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