Savannah Guthrie Recalls Leaving Her Delivery Room ‘Trashed,’ Chilling Wine in the Hospital Urinal

Savannah Guthrie really made her hospital room her own after giving birth. 

The 53-year-old Today co-host, who is mom to daughter Vale, 10, and son Charley, 8, with her husband Michael Feldman, opened up about her experience after giving birth via C-section. 

“I remember being in the delivery room. I just was waiting for sushi, a glass of wine,” Guthrie shared as a guest co-host on Today with Jenna & Friends on June 5. “I just started calling people, ‘Come over, come see the baby!’ That room was, like, as if Mötley Crüe in the ‘80s had been there. When we left it was trashed.” 

The veteran journalist also got candid with how she used her surroundings to host the impromptu party. 

“We used — I’m not kidding — you know the urinal thing they have? I was like, ‘Get one of those, we’ll put a bunch of ice in it. We’ll chill the wine right in it,’ “Guthrie told a horrified Jenna Bush Hager. “It was amazing. It wasn’t a used urinal.”

But Bush Hager wasn’t convinced. 

“Well, how do you know it wasn’t a used urinal?” she asked. “I believe Henry [Hager] used that urinal in my room.”

“No, stop,” Guthrie noted. “They have a bathroom! No, not the urinal. The plastic bin thing. You’re thinking I meant the urinal…”

Bush Hager confirmed, “I thought you meant the urinal in the bathroom.”

The daughter of former President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush noted that she and her twin sister Barbara Bush made their own adjustments to her delivery room after she welcomed one of her three kids. 

“Barbara showed up with tacos,” she said of her sister. “She also would push my bed to different locations to try to get that shot. You know, because the lighting is notoriously bad in hospitals. Henry was like, ‘What is happening here?’ I’m like, ‘Barbara’s getting the shot.’ “

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Back in 2017 after welcoming Charley, Guthrie told PEOPLE that she was embracing the ‘80s when it came to her parenting style. 

“I try to copy pretty much everything my mom did, even though at the time, I probably didn’t appreciate it,” Guthrie said. “Now I just love how no-nonsense she was. I’m like, ‘I’m gonna be an ’80s mom, like no-nonsense Nancy Guthrie.’ That’s how I’m gonna roll, too. She was right. She didn’t put up with anything.”