Former first daughter Jenna Bush pregnant
(CNN) – George W. Bush is going to be a grandfather.
The former president's daughter Jenna announced Wednesday she was "nervous and so excited" to be expecting her first child, due sometime in the spring of 2013.
"I'm a first-time mom, but it's something I've always wanted. I'm a teacher and I love kids," Jenna Bush Hager, 31, said on NBC's "Today Show," where she serves as a contributor.
She appeared on the show with her husband Henry Hager, whom she married in 2008 on her family's 1,600-acre ranch in Crawford, Texas. Hager said his wife would "instill wonderful values" on their new baby.
The former president, who phoned into the show along with his wife Laura, declared he was "fired up" about becoming a grandfather – but that he wasn't planning on changing any diapers in the near future.
"I'll be the guy in the Ford 250 driving around the ranch with the grandchild," George W. Bush said.
Laura Bush said she was "thrilled for Jenna and Henry and, of course, for George and me to have the grandchildren we've been really looking forward to."
In the months before Jenna's wedding four years ago, the first lady joked about potential names for their first grandchild
"George or Georgia ... Georgina. Georgette," she speculated.
And what will the new addition to the Bush clan call the former leader of the free world?
"Sir," the former president joked.
CNN's Kevin Liptak contributed to this report.
"Hundreds of thousands of babies are born every day. While the whole phenomenon is menacing, one of them by itself is not newsworthy. Nor is it a difficult achievement—even some fish can do it.
"These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass starvation."
What ndxt!!!
Bush familly reality TV?
At least the news got gdub out of hiding. Congrats to Jenna and her husband.
Congrats to the Hagar/Bush family. Hope she has a safe pregnancy and a healthy child.
congrats, i like her, she seem down to earth
Congrats, happy news...
...best wishes for Jenna, baby and her family 🙂
I'm happy to hear GWB and Jenna are happy. They are good people.
Great for Dubya, Laura and Jenna and hope for a happy healthy baby. The bad thing is that kid will have to help pay for the debt and deficits that its grandfather built up by lowering taxes during war time and selling $800 billion of treasuries to China to fund two stupid wars that ended in the deaths of thousands of American. The Bush legacy.
Who cares??? Many people are having babies... It happens everyday!!!
Hi jenny shout out to u and the expectant,wish u a safe and succesful delivery
Wow, I clicked here just to see the hate and was suprisingly mistaken. Almost everything was positive. Maybe we're getting better.
Wonderful! Just what we need – another "Bush"!!!
Yo Jenna, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Dutchess Kate had one of the best pregnancies of all time...
"These birth announcements also spread the myth that having a baby is something to be proud of, which fuels natalist pressure, which leads to pollution, extinction of wildlife, poverty, and ultimately mass starvation."
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I must say that Jack Nicholson in "As Good As It Gets" has NOTHING on you!
LOL!
Congratulations to all – nothing better than being a grandparent 🙂
Oh and obviously John does care or he wouldn't have commented...........................................
I would never vote for a Bush but this does belong on the Political Ticker and as much as most of us want to erase the Bush years, she was a First Daughter. It's nice sometimes to read light hearted stores even if they do feature a Bush.
Keep up the good work CNN.
Congrats to the expectant parents.
Correction: It's nice sometimes to read light hearted stories even if they do feature a Bush.
"Wow, I clicked here just to see the hate and was suprisingly mistaken. Almost everything was positive. Maybe we're getting better." They have deleted all my comments for not being pro-Bush. This is only for gushingly positive compliments.
So this is on the ticker because of whom she's related to. Gotcha, CNN. Slow news day, I guess.
In other news, water is wet. Story at 11:00.
Another Bush is what I always wanted!
She is so pretty; looks just like her mom. 🙂 What a blessing children are. I am sure this baby will be loved and adored.
Congratulations!
Who cares? The Bush clan needs to just go away. This is not a newsworthy story.
My mama use to say, "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all"... too bad more mamas didn't teach that bit of wisdom to their children.