As the children of TODAY co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, Vale, 10, and Charley, 7, have been able to enjoy some perks of their mom’s job.
There was that time they got to visit Studio 1A to see sports superstars Steph Curry and Roger Federer.
They had a “magnifique” trip to Paris while Savannah was there covering the Olympics.
Charley’s dream came true when he met LeBron James. Vale danced on the plaza for the Meghan Trainor Citi Concert performance.
In short, these kids are living the life. And so is their proud mom.
Savannah, who shares Vale and Charley with her husband, Michael Feldman, chatted about motherhood with the other TODAY co-hosts in honor of Mother’s Day 2024.
“I think parenting is so hard,” said Savannah. “It’s so perplexing. It’s the most challenging thing you could ever take on.”
She joked that sometimes when her kids are misbehaving, she can sit down and “co-regulate” their feelings. “And sometimes I’m like, ‘Out!’”
“I think our job as moms is to be just rock solid,” Savannah added later. “I’m here and I’m for you. You can count on that. You can take that to the bank. You might be mad at me. That’s fine. I’ll still be here and I’ll still be for you and on your side.”
Read on to learn more about Savannah and Feldman’s two kids.
Vale Guthrie Feldman
On August 13, 2014, Savannah welcomed her daughter, Vale, with Feldman. Vale weighed 8 pounds, 5 ounces, and measured in at 19.5 inches long at the time of her birth. Her birthday means she falls under the Leo zodiac sign.
“I was shocked when we went home with her,” Savannah recalled to Hoda after Vale’s birth. “I’m like, you’re just going to let us take her home. Was there any kind of manual? But those moments I can remember being cheek to cheek, the tears rolling down and just having a little conversation with her like, ‘I’m always going to love you. I’m always going to protect you. I’m always going to be your mommy.'”
After Vale was born, Savannah called into TODAY and spoke about how happy she felt.
“When I look at her I’m so proud and I can’t stop thanking God,” she said at the time.
“I feel like life just started,” Savannah said. “I can’t get over the joy that she brings — it’s kind of inexpressible. Honestly, I think it is beyond words.”
Savannah said she was surprised that Vale was a girl because TODAY viewers had convinced her that she would have a boy.
As for how she and Feldman came up with their first child’s name? The afternoon she was born, they pored over their short list of names. They decided on Vale, which means “valley by a stream.”
“We thought it was pretty unique but not kooky or so weird,” she said.
In August 2024, Vale celebrated her 10th birthday on the same day as Jenna Bush Hager’s daughter Poppy celebrated her 9th birthday.
To commemorate the occasion, Savannah posted a sweet photo carousel of her “magical girl” on Instagram.
Charles ‘Charley’ Max Guthrie Feldman
Savannah called her second child, Charles (nicknamed Charley) Max, a “medical miracle” in a cover story for Health Magazine. Charley was born on Dec. 8, 2016, following a fertility journey that Savannah spoke about publicly.
After Savannah welcomed Vale in 2014, she said and Feldman considered using IVF (in vitro fertilization) to have another child.
“When making that decision about whether to go through IVF, my husband and I talked about it a lot. I didn’t want to start a process where we spent all of our present searching after some future … when our present was so lovely and beautiful and enough,” she told Health.
Ultimately, they decided having a sibling for Vale was important enough to try. “Because we are older,” Savannah said, “it was important to me for her to have a sibling, somebody to do life with.”
Savannah suffered a miscarriage and went through two rounds of IVF before welcoming son Charles.
“I stopped even letting myself hope or believe I could (get pregnant), because the years were getting on,” she told Good Housekeeping in April 2022. “It wasn’t that I thought it was impossible; I just thought it wasn’t likely.”
“I just tried to tell myself that it would be OK if it didn’t happen: ‘Maybe it’s not meant for me, and that’s OK because I’ve already been blessed so much in my life. I’m not entitled to have a baby too.’ Looking back, that mindset was probably a self-defense mechanism,” she said.
Ultimately, Savannah told Health, she and Feldman “got lucky.” She said, “I always say, Charley was, like, the last egg out. He really was. And we’re so blessed.”
Once she became pregnant, Savannah celebrated. “It’s hard for words to contain all the excitement Mike and I have about expecting a new baby in December. When Vale was born, our happiness was complete. The thought of getting to add to our family now is beyond every hope, dream and prayer I have ever had. It is not simply double the joy — it is joy multiplied infinitely,” she wrote in a story for TODAY.
Savannah revealed the baby’s gender on air with blue milkshakes and a plane flying an aerial banner declaring, “It’s a boy!”
Savannah and Feldman ended up welcoming Charley in December 2016, making him a Sagittarius. He weighed 9 pounds, 8 ounces, and measured 21.5 inches long. Savannah said that she named him after her late father, who died when she was a teen, and Feldman’s grandfather.
For his 7th birthday in 2023, Savannah posted a handful of photos and videos of her “little firecracker” through the years.
See some of Savannah’s sweetest moments with Vale and Charley
Savannah frequently shares motherhood moments on her social media pages. In some instances, Savannah shows how she balances — or blends! — work life and family life, like the time that Charley and Vale stopped by the TODAY show for an impromptu “take your kids to work day.”
In 2021, when Savannah traveled to Tokyo to cover the Olympics, she shared a series of screenshots from her FaceTime calls with her faraway kids. “The many faces of facetime with my babies,” she said. “Saying good morning to them as Tokyo says goodnight with another stunner of a sunset.”
She also shares snaps from quality time with family. Throughout the summer of 2022, Savannah, Feldman and their kids soaked up the “summer vibes” together, as she put it.
“Just to keep it real,” Savannah wrote in the caption of a slideshow featuring Vale and Charley really trying to avoid a posing for a sibling photo.
She also celebrates milestones in their lives, like their back-to-school daysover the years.
Essentially, Vale and Charley are the unofficial stars of Savannah’s Instagram, and she wouldn’t have it any other way. “I’m never happier than when they’re in my arms. I do not take this blessing for granted,” Savannah wrote.
