Baby boy joy for Elisabeth Hasselbeck

By Stone Martindale Nov 12, 2007, 1:10 GMT

(R) Elisabeth Hasselbeck - 33rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards - Arrivals - Kodak Theater - Hollywood, CA © Chris Hatcher / Photorazzi

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host on ABC's "The View," gave birth Friday morning to a baby boy at an Arizona hospital, the network announced Saturday.

The baby weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and arrived without complications for the child or the television host.

The Hasselbecks did not release the name of their new son - his name will be shared during Monday's "The View" in a phone call to her fellow co-hosts.

"Elisabeth and I are happy to announce the arrival of our son and we're thrill he arrived safely," Tim Hasselbeck, Elisabeth's NFL quarterback husband, said in a statement. "Both mom and son are happy and healthy."

Elisabeth Hasselbeck, known as the most conservative voice on the show's panel, bid farewell to her co-hosts on Oct. 23 to begin a two-and-a-half month maternity leave.

Hasselbeck announced her pregnancy on the show in April.

"It was not easy to leave my co-hosts and our crew early," Elisabeth Hasselbeck wrote in an e-mail earlier this week, "but it was more than clear to me that I want my family to be under the same roof when our baby arrived."

The 30-year-old former "Survivor" contestant and Arizona Cardinals quarterback already have a 2-year-old daughter, Grace.

Hasslebeck became a "View" staple after she won a nationwide search in 2003 for a co-host to replace Lisa Ling. Her conservative viewpoints often placed her at odds with her former co-host Rosie O'Donnell during the comedian's one-year stint on the show last season.

The debates between the two came to a head during their most heated argument culminating in a split-screen view of Hasselbeck and O'Donnell arguing about the war on terror in May 2007.