Little Liberty is ready for her close-up.
Meghan McCain returned from maternity leave to her co-hosting duties on “The View” Monday and shared the first photo of her new baby daughter’s sweet face on social media.
McCain, 36, and her husband Ben Domenech welcomed Liberty Sage on Sept. 28.
The TV personality, author and daughter of late Sen. John McCain previously shared snaps of Liberty’s baby legs but kept her chubby cheeks under wraps.
“Someone wanted to see me?” she wrote in the caption to the new photo of 3-month-old Liberty posted Monday morning.
She added an emoji of the Statue of Liberty.
In her return to “The View,” McCain discussed the challenges she faced with the birth of her first child and advocated for paid maternity leave.
“When I gave birth, I actually had post-natal pre-eclampsia, and I was in the hospital for a week after on a magnesium drip. And it really, really kicked my butt,” she said.
“I was planning on coming back to the show for the election in six weeks after I gave birth, and I was physically unable to,” she shared. “I had to have my husband and my mother-in-law help me do everything from shower to eat. It was deeply humbling.”
She recalled thinking it was “a privilege to have this kind of maternity leave.” She later became “angry” it was a “luxury” instead of a right, she said.
McCain challenged her fellow conservatives to make paid family leave a priority.
“We are the only developing nation that doesn’t supply women with paid family leave,” she said.
“We as conservatives have to come together” and join with Democrats to make financial support available to new parents regardless of their employment status, she said.
She said all women deserve “the capacity to have what I just had, which is three months of bonding time and breast feeding and healing from an emergency c-section, which is what I had to have.”
