( CNN ) -- Experience getting up early is about to come in handy to Savannah Guthrie . The `` Today '' anchor gave birth Wednesday to a daughter named Vale Guthrie Feldman . It 's the first child for Guthrie and husband Mike Feldman . Guthrie shared the news on social media and tweeted `` My 3am wake up call sounds a lot different now . Sweeter . '' Her co-anchor Matt Lauer revealed on the show Thursday that he was texting with Gutherie prior to the birth when she went silent . When he inquired as to why , she texted him a picture of her daughter 's foot . `` It was Vale 's foot ... and I just sat there smiling , '' Lauer said . Gutherie tweeted a picture of the new baby . She announced her pregnancy on air in March at the same time she announced that she and Feldman had tied the knot .
She gives birth on Wednesday . It 's a first for her and for Mike Feldman . Matt Lauer explains how he found out .