Oprah Has Her First Baby

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Oprah Winfrey had her first on-air baby during the Oprah show on Thursday when an audience member went into labor.

Mom-to-be Lori McKindle from Toronto, Canada had to be taken from the studio in Chicago, Illinois to a nearby hospital after her waters broke.

And excited Winfrey halted the taping of the show to personally wish McKindle well before paramedics raced her to Rush University Medical Center, where her son was born an hour later.

Speaking to Oprah at the start of her show on Friday, the new mom said,

“He was born about 20 minutes after I saw you. You helped me through… He’s (baby) doing pretty good. They’re doing a lot of tests on him now.”

The tot, named Justin, was born prematurely and weighed in at just two pounds and 18 ounces.

Posted in: February 6, 2010 at 9:00 am