Abby Phillip’s son was born at home on October 27, 2026, with a midwife, and when she introduced him, she said the second time had needed help.
“Our journey to a second child looked a little different from our first,” she wrote on November 3, announcing the birth on Instagram. “In this moment, I’m both grateful that we were successful in God’s perfect timing.”
The baby’s name is Maxwell Elias Richardson. “Welcome to the world, Maxwell Elias Richardson! We’re overjoyed to welcome our sweet baby boy to our family,” she wrote. “He was born on October 27th at home with the help of our wonderful midwife.” She added that he is “eating and sleeping like a champ and making himself right at home.”
Phillip and her husband Marcus Richardson married in Washington, D.C., in 2018. Their daughter, Naomi Angelina Richardson, is 4 and was born in August 2021. Phillip covered the 2020 presidential election while she was pregnant with Naomi. The couple announced this pregnancy in May and said then that they had conceived through IVF.
So she has now said it twice, in May and again this week, with her name on it both times: the second child did not arrive the way the first one did. That sentence usually stays inside a family. A woman who anchors a nightly national program put it on her own page instead, next to a photograph of her son.
She named where she gave birth in the same breath. Home, with a midwife, said as plainly as the date and the baby’s weight would normally be said, which makes it a decision she is willing to be asked about rather than one somebody else found out.
Phillip anchors on CNN and wrote “A Dream Deferred.” She has now worked an election cycle pregnant and an IVF cycle in public.
