Seasoned television host, published author, magazine writer, parent/child advocate, and sought-after speaker, Lu Hanessian is the mother of two boys, 5 and 8. For the past two years, she has combined a unique mix of broadcasting skills, personality and mothering insight as host of "Make Room for Baby" on Discovery Health Channel.

A Michigan native, she began her multi-media career as a writer, reporter and broadcaster in Montreal, where she worked in newspaper, radio and television. In 1987, she joined the national CTV affiliate in Montreal, and hosted, anchored and produced the internationally syndicated travel program, "Travel, Travel," and weekly prime-time news magazine, "Park Avenue Metro." She hosted the internationally syndicated "The Science Show," seen in North America on the Discovery Channel and the Sci-Fi Channel, as well as in 110 countries in 17 languages.

In 1994, Lu moved to New York, where she hosted a live afternoon talk show on NBC's national cable network, "America's Talking." The following year, she became co-anchor of NBC's new daily morning magazine show, "Real Life." In 1996, she guest co-hosted with Robert Stack on several episodes of NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries." In 1997, Lu moderated the United Nation's (UNESCO) live televised town meeting on literacy in Hamburg, Germany.

A veteran writer, Lu's articles and essays have most recently been published in The New York Times, Playboy, Redbook, Mothering, Parenting and regularly in Fit Pregnancy magazine, for which she is a contributor. Fit Pregnancy documented her second pregnancy in 2002 with Lu's "Three Trimester Diaries."

Lu is the author of the popular book, "Let the Baby Drive: Navigating the Road of New Motherhood" (St. Martin's Press). An excerpted chapter from LET THE BABY DRIVE was published in Redbook magazine (May 2004). She has been interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, FOX News Channel, "Life & Style," NPR's "The Parent Journal," "Your Healthy Family" radio show, "MomTalk" radio, and Working Mother magazine, among other shows and magazines.

Also a musician, Lu studied classical and jazz piano in Canada and the U.S., and taught piano for several years. In 1993, Lu wrote, directed and performed in a musical revue about relationships entitled "Love Notes," which was staged in Montreal to sold-out audiences.

Her new CD of original contemporary ballads, "Welcome Home, My Child: Songs for a Mother's Journey", is a soulful and stirring collection of "lullabies for mothers."