Meteorologist mum melts hearts
A meteorologist mum has become a viral sensation after doing her daily on-air weather forecast with her adorable baby daughter in her arms.
Rebecca Schuld, 42, from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has been working from home amid the Covid pandemic.
When her 13-week-old daughter, Fiona, awoke from her nap just moments before she was set to go live to deliver the weather forecast on CBS 58, she decided to give her viewers an adorable surprise and bring her baby on air with her.
'She’s prepared. She’s got one of her good thick blankies here for that cold weather that’s coming up tonight,' Rebecca said during the segment, while holding the youngster - who didn't make a peep throughout the entire thing.
'I thought she could help me with tonight’s first weather that’s going to be plenty unpleasant, right?'
Rebecca - who just returned to work from maternity leave - opened up about the heartwarming moment, explaining that it was actually her producer's idea to bring Fiona on the show.
'I was just minutes away from having my next weather broadcast, and my baby had just woken up,' she recalled.
'I go over to my green wall. I’m holding her and our producer is like, "Oh, your baby, is she gonna make an appearance?"
'I was very confident she was going to behave because she just took a long nap so I knew she'd be happy. I said, "Sure!"'
Rebecca admitted that although she felt guilty for having her daughter intertwine with her work at first, she was proud of herself in the end for being real with her viewers.
'We're supposed to put on this certain face,' she said. 'For a split second, I felt guilty about it and I don't know why.
'When I sat and thought about it, it's like, why am I guilty? This is real life. This is what everyone else is also doing.
Now, she hopes that other mothers who are balancing working while also being a parent feel less alone.
Rebecca, who films the show out of her basement, said it's an 'absolute privilege' to be able to work from home and spend so much time with her newborn and family.
'So to get done with maternity leave, and because of COVID, them wanting to keep some of us home, it gave me an opportunity to ease back into work life.
'I’m able to multitask and still care for her and be there in her life. Some countries have maternity leave for a couple of years, so you're really able to bond with the baby and help raise them instead of, you know, putting them into daycare and then missing milestones.
'Why not work from home if we can utilise technology? Why do we have to be in the office?
'We've got everything here at home. We're doing the same work. And we're able to have a more enriched family life, so to me it’s the best of both worlds.'
Rebecca's daughter was a total hit, with thousands of people having now watched the clip.
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