Health scare for “The View” host Alyssa Farah Griffin‘s family … she says her 2-month-old child ended up in the ICU needing a major surgical procedure.

The daytime host revealed her baby’s health emergency Monday on “The View” podcast … saying her son needed a “major operation” and spent the weekend in the intensive care unit.

Alyssa says she and her husband, Justin Griffin, were by their son’s side as he went under the knife … and it sounds like the recovery is going well.

While Alyssa did not go into details about what kind of surgery her baby boy needed, she said … “To watch a baby be helpless, but also have to entrust him into someone else’s hands was like … it took every amount of strength that I have just to get through it all.”