'Baby whisperer’ Richard Madeley's sweet way of bonding with granddaughter before birth

ok.co.uk:

Richard Madeley has been dubbed the ‘baby whisperer’ by his daughter Chloe and husband James Haskell after they discovered he has the knack to settle newborn daughter Bodhi.

The Good Morning Britain presenter started bonding with baby Bodhi before she was even born, and now has the sweetest connection with his only daughter's firstborn.

Richard told OK!: “Because we’ve been living together, this is the first grandchild we’ve been really close to even before they were born. “In the last couple of weeks leading up to Chloe’s due date, most nights I’d kneel down in front of her belly and say, ‘Come on, Bo-Bo, we’re all ready for you - why are you hanging around?’ “We’ve felt very close to the baby, literally, and we now have that incredible sense of miracle where one minute she’s been a huge bulge in our daughter’s tummy and the next she’s a real-life kicking, squealing human being.” Chloe, 35, and James, 37, moved back in with her famous parents in London’s affluent Hampstead Heath a few weeks before the birth while renovations to their new home five minutes down the road are completed.

Richard, 66, and Judy, 74, were the first people to meet the beautiful bundle and arrived at the hospital “fit to burst” when she was born via emergency C-section on August 10th.They are now doting grandparents with Bodhi back at the family home.