What’s in a name? Just a feeling, forDylan Dreyer!
During a Friday-morning call-in toTodayto talkabout her newborn son, the show’s meteorologist and third-hour co-anchor revealed that she didn’t have a hugely specific reason for naming himOliver George.
“There was no significance behind Calvin and there’s no significance behind Oliver!” Dreyer, 38,told her colleagueswith a laugh. “We liked the name.”
The new mom of two added that she and husbandBrian Ficherahad a “list of five different names” leading up to Oliver’s birth, and then when she was covering the Royal Ascot in London, “Everybody we were around was either named Oliver [or we saw it elsewhere].”
“We had to pick up Brian’s suit from a store calledOliver Brownand there were just all these signs and we were like, ‘Yeah, I think Oliver’s it.’ ”
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Dylan Dreyer’s sons Oliver George and Calvin Bradley.Courtesy Dylan Dreyer
“So we said, ‘It’s really gonna confuse Calvin if we changed his name now,’ ” Dreyer said. “Even though he says ‘Oliver,’ but we’ll work on that.”
“All I do is stare at him,” she said during herTodaycall, raving about her newborn’s unexpectedly “huge” lips. “I just want to kiss him every second.”
Dreyer also said she and Fichera, 33, “really built up the excitement for Calvin” inanticipation of becoming a big brother. The result? “Pure joy,” she revealed.
“I had to go into the hospital early yesterday morning, so when I woke up at 5 o’clock, Calvin woke up, he wanted to get dressed, he wanted to come with us,” Dreyer recalled.
“I said, ‘Mommy and Daddy have to leave, but you’re gonnacome to the hospital and meetOliver today,’ ” she continued. “He had his shoes on and his jacket on. He was so ready to come! And then he walks in with this huge smile on his face. He sits on my lap and he looks at Oliver and he asks to hold him right away. It was perfect.”
Dreyer shared that Fichera is “doing awesome” — and unlike Calvin, who “was born bald” and stayed that way for a year, their newborn has “this huge head of long, blond hair, and I don’t know where that came from!”
Brian Fichera (L) and Dylan Dreyer with son Calvin.Courtesy Dylan Dreyer
Dylan Dreyer (L) and Brian Fichera.Heidi Gutman/NBC
Dreyer’spregnancy announcement(and big reveal that the couple wasexpecting their second son) came in July, on the heels of sharing in April that she had suffered a miscarriage over the winter. The loss followed a struggle with trying to conceive for six months before being referred to a specialist. The couple was ready to turn to in vitro fertilization when they got an unexpected — yet exciting — call from their doctor.
“I was just waiting for the phone call from Dr. Reichman, to tell me how much of each drug to use,” Dreyer recalled to PEOPLE at the time of herplanned ovarian-stimulation cycle. “Instead, when he called, he said, ‘Well, you can’t start IVF because you’re already pregnant!’ We were in complete shock. We couldn’t believe it!”
source: people.com
