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Pregnant news anchor stays on air during labor. ‘If I disappear, that’s what’s going on,’ she says

Local news co-anchor Olivia Jaquith went ahead with her three-hour morning newscast even after her labor contractions began and her water broke.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Local news co-anchor Olivia Jaquith went ahead with a three-hour morning newscast even after her labor contractions began and her water broke, keeping viewers updated about the coming birth of her first baby. Jaquith had the option of going home, but she told the Times-Union that she decided to pass the time at her job rather than “nervously waiting around at the hospital.” “Having the entire morning team alongside me cracking jokes helped me get through contractions much easier,” she said in a text to the newspaper.

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