Morgan Radford has a child!
On February 2, the NBC News Daily anchor and NBC News reporter had her first child with husband David Williams. Adelana Marcia Radford Williams, or Lana for short, was born weighing 8 pounds, 1 ounce, and measuring 21 inches.
Radford told TODAY a few facts about her baby daughter.
“She is the life generated by love,” Radford said in a statement. “She is mommy’s joy, her new closest friend, and her biggest fantasy. She is the apple of her father’s eye, as well as the guardian of his heart. She is also the living embodiment of her (very) proud grandparents’ decades of love and commitment, who can’t stop staring at her in delight and wonder.”
Her name is pronounced in English, Spanish, and Yoruba, and it was selected to “link her to her family, roots, and our hopes for a bright and colorful future of her choice.”
Adelana is a Yoruba name that means “the channel through which more good things are to flow.” Marcia is a surname derived from her maternal grandmother, Lily Marcia.
Since last August, when Radford and Williams let TODAY post an emotional video on Twitter with Williams and all of the future grandparents learning about the addition to the family, Radford and Williams have kept their followers in the loop about the forthcoming bundle of joy.
The baby’s due date was originally scheduled for January.
At the time, Radford told TODAY Parents that she was most looking forward to “the cuddling!” The first words! “I love that we are creating this whole new individual that gets to be precisely who they want to be, and to have new experiences even beyond my own imagining,” she says of her newborn.
Radford posted a photo of herself and Williams on Twitter in October, mimicking the famous shot of a pregnant Rihanna with A$AP Rocky kissing her head.
“Happy Halloween,” she said in the caption, signing it “MoRad & A$AP Papi” with the funny hashtag “#AlbumDroppingSoon”.
Williams and Radford met while studying at Harvard. They stayed in touch after graduation, even though Williams went to law school and Radford relocated to South Africa. They fell in love after meeting again in 2017 at a London conference. They married on January 8, 2022, in Cartagena, Colombia, after postponing their nuptials originally scheduled for May 2020.
Radford discussed her own experience with egg freezing with TODAY in 2018 during National Infertility Awareness Week. Despite the fact that she had frozen her eggs, her pregnancy was natural.
Along the way, she got some sound advise from TODAY’s Dylan Dreyer, a mother of three: “You’ll know what to do.”
