Todayis a good day forDylan Dreyer.
The NBC daytime show’s meteorologist and third-hour co-host is pregnant and expecting her second child with husbandBrian Fichera, she tells PEOPLE exclusively for this week’s issue, out Friday. (She confirmed the news Wednesday onToday.)
“This is the best secret we could have possibly been keeping,” says Dreyer, 37, of the happy news.
Dreyer’s pregnancy comes on the heels of sharing in Aprilthat she had suffered a miscarriageover the winter, following 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 to help conceive a sibling for sonCalvin Bradley, 2½, 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 recalls 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!”
Dylan Dreyer.Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty
“I do thank God for [Dr. David Reichmanof the Cornell Center for Reproductive Medicine] because I know the surgery he did, to clear out all the scarring from my previous [cesarean] section, made a huge difference,” she adds. “But I also think my prayers were answered.”
Dreyer tells PEOPLE she’s “due in the winter” and currently in her second trimester, “past the point of worrying much about miscarriage” since their genetic testing “went well.”
Dylan Dreyer and family.
Unbeknownst to Dreyer at the time, she was actually pregnant while opening up about her secondary infertility and miscarriage on theTodayshow in April, when Fichera and Dr. Reichman joined herto discuss the journey.
“I had no clue and was taking all the classes to learn about the injections, how to mix the medications, all of it,” she says. “Not to mention all the paperwork and consent forms and notarized forms I’d had to go and fill out. So clearly, Ihad no idea this was even possible! I was assuming I’d be starting IVF around the beginning of May.”
Brian Fichera (L) and Dylan Dreyer with son Calvin.Courtesy Dylan Dreyer
The meteorologist says it was “killing” her not to tellJenna Bush Hagerabout her pregnancy (the former first daughter, 37, coincidentally announced she wasexpecting her third childthe same day as Dreyer’s discussion about her miscarriage and secondary infertility) — butAl Rokerfigured it out on his own.
“I’m just such a bad liar,” Dreyer admits. “I was at [Craig Melvin‘s birthday] party drinking water with an olive in it, so everyone would think it was a martini. Meanwhile, my clothes weren’t fitting well.”
“It’s funny because [Al] was the first to knowwhen I was pregnant with Calvin, too,” she shares with PEOPLE. “He said to me, ‘I just have an inkling.’ ”
While Dreyer credits the scar-removal surgery in part in helping her conceive again — something she wasgoing to turn to IVF forwhile she “still had that option,” because she “was running low on eggs” — she can’t be more thankful for the power of positivity, too.
“By putting my story out there, I feel like the thousands of prayers and good wishes we received really made a difference,” she says. “I knew it was in God’s hands, and thisis certainly an answered prayer.”
For more from Dylan Dreyer, pick up the latest issue ofPEOPLE, on newsstands Friday.
source: people.com
