Parenting & Pregnancy

Nicole Kidman may have looked stunning in a fitted red dress on the CMT Awards red carpet last night, but Nicole Kidman had one awful morning.
 

The actress told Access Hollywood’s CMT special correspondent Maureen McCormick, she, like many moms-to-be has had some stomach troubles during her pregnancy.
 

“I’ve had severe morning sickness,” Nicole said.
 

As for her pregnancy in general, Nicole said things are going well.
 

”[I’m] good actually, really good. Waiting for the third trimester,” she said. “Everyone says that is hard work.”
 

Nicole accompanied her husband, country crooner Keith Urban, to the awards ceremony.
 

Source accesshollywood.com
 

Jane Danson plans to ban her son from watching Coronation Street because she is appalled at her character’s antics.
 

The actress, who plays Leanne Battersby in the ITV1 soap, said 20-month-old Harry would have to wait a few years before viewing the show.
 

She told Teletext: “Leanne isn’t exactly a good role model for him.
 

“She’s involved in arson and insurance fraud after burning down her restaurant. I’m going to stop him watching it until he’s older!”
 

Danson recently revealed that her co-stars helped her overcome the death of her father in February.
 

Source: Digital Spy
 

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Opera singer turned TV presenter Charlotte Church, 22, has praised boyfriend Gavin Henson, 26, for being such a hands-on dad and revealed that their daughter Ruby Megan, 7 months, is a daddy’s girl.
 

To be honest, I’m not that busy with motherhood. She’s a daddy’s girl through and through. Gavin’s really good with her. She’s gorgeous and it’s a joy to be her mum.

The mum-of-one also said recently that she plans to take Ruby back to work with her when she starts filming the new series of The Charlotte Church Show on channel 4.
 

Source: Daily Express
 

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Natasha Kaplinsky is three months pregnant with her first child, it was confirmed last night.Britain’s highest paid newsreader is having a baby with investment banker husband Justin Bower.
 

The couple became engaged in April 2005 - five-and-a-half weeks after meeting - and married in August that year.
 

The 35-year-old’s pregnancy comes just months after she became Britain’s highest paid newsreader.
 

She was already pregnant when she made her first appearance on Channel Five in February, and now is set to take a leave of absence from the channel, which will leave a huge void in their coverage.
 

Her spokesman last night confirmed the pregnancy, but said Miss Kaplinsky had not known about it when she switched channels as she signed the deal in October
 

The spokesman said: “I can confirm Natasha is pregnant and she’s never been happier.”
 

He said the newsreader had made no secret of her and her husband’s
 

After winning Strictly Come Dancing in 2004 she split up with her boyfriend of 11 years. During the show she was romantically linked with her dancing partner Brendan Cole.
 

She later met her husband on a blind date. He proposed the following month on a holiday in the Maldives.
 

Source
 

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Brooke Burke and David Charvet’s still doesnt have a name! Brooke blogs about the birth on her Baboosh Baby Web site, saying, “My birth was quick and easy, thank God! I didn’t even get through my second set of pushes, and out he came. Can you believe that we have waited all our lives for a son and we still have not decided on a name?!
 

Below is the full article from Brooke burke’s blog,
 

“Hi,
 

As you already know, we have had our son and he is truly amazing! We are all quite sleep deprived, but nothing we were not expecting!!! Thank you so much to all of you that have sent congrats and sweet wishes for my family. We really appreciate all the feedback. I am amazed at how the Baboosh network has grown and the kindness that I get from all of you.
 

My birth was quick and easy, thank God!!! I didn’t even get through my second set of pushes, and out he came. Can you believe that we have waited all our lives for a son and we still have not decided on a name. Neriah and Sierra welcomed him with excitement and open arms, but Rain is having a tough time. She is a bit aggressive by nature, and does not understand why she cannot pull him out of his basket. First, she was mad at me for 2 days for leaving her for the night in the hospital, then I cam home with the “intruder”. She is getting better, but there sure are a lot of feelings to take care of in my home.
 

Tomorrow is our Brit Milah. Poor Guy! The Jew that decided to plan a party for their son on the eighth day after giving birth obviously never had a baby before! LOL.
 

FYI. I brought my Tauts to the hospital, size small. I was so sad to realize that it did not fit me. Just a word of encouragement, three days after the birth I was able to squeeze into it. I have been wearing it around the clock. It is not the most comfortable thing, but it sure is working. For anyone who is suffering, hang in there. Take it off for short periods, like during feeding, if you have to. My swelling is going down fast, and the support that it is giving me feels great. It seems as though every pregnant woman in the country has placed an order for Tauts and we are scrambling to keep them in stock. Please be patient with us, I promise it is so worth the wait. My staff is dealing with a lot of angry hormonal women, one being me…
 

Here is a shot of me weeks before I popped. Happy not to resemble Buddha anymore!
 

Brooke”

 
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Halle Berry revealed on Tuesday that she has named her newborn daughter, Nahla Ariela Aubry.
       

       “We didn’t have a name picked out until just before we left the hospital,” Berry told “Access Hollywood’s” Nancy O’Dell. “For us, it was hard to name the most important person in our life until we met her.” 
 
The 7-pound, 4-ounce girl born Sunday to the actress and her boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, is not only surrounded by a reported £30,000 worth of nursery items reportedly spread across three homes, but her mama’s neighbor and “Perfect Stranger” co-star, Bruce Willis, showered her with baby gifts from Petit Tresor in West Hollywood. 
 
 

Berry also shopped for the baby at Petit Tresor, buying everything from a £600 Mia Bossi leather diaper bag, to sheets and stuffed animals in “all whites and neutrals,” a witness told the Daily News.
 

Gabriel’s sister, Canadian resident Eugenie Aubry, was interviewed by People magazine about the birth of her niece. “I was so happy when I found out, she said.  “It’s been a long time since we’ve had a new baby in the family. It’s very exciting.”
 

Brooke Shields has two daughters, but she’s ready for a son.
 

“I want a boy!” she said at the Prada Trembled Blossoms event in Beverly Hills Wednesday.
 

Standing in the way? Chris Henchy, her husband of six-years.
 

“I’m going to have to convince him and he’s a hard sell at this point,” the Lipstick Jungle star, 42, said while laughing. “Maybe he likes the even number!”
 

Shields is already mother to Rowan, 4, and Grier, 23 months.
 

Source US Magazine
 

Here’s your first glimpse of Jennifer Lopez and her twins, Max and Emme, born Feb. 22 in Long Island, N.Y.
 

This week’s issue of PEOPLE, on news stands Friday 21 March, features 12 pages of new photos of the pop star with husband Marc Anthony and their 1-month-old bundles of joy inside their Long Island home and nursery.
 

The happy new parents spoke candidly to PEOPLE about the pregnancy, addressing everything from Jennifer’s weight gain to rumors of infertility. For all the details, pick up the new issue, on newsstands Friday.
 

The babies were born early Friday in Long Island, N.Y. The girl was born at 12:12 a.m. and weighed 5 lbs. 7 oz., and the boy followed at 12:23 a.m., weighing 6 lbs
 

Source Here
 
 

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Heather Mills has been awarded a £24.3m divorce payout from Sir Paul McCartney, according to a court judgment released today.
 

She had sought £125m from the 60-year-old former Beatle, the judgment reveals, but received a fifth of that amount. McCartney had offered £15.8m.
 

The amounts were decided by a judge from the high court’s family division after the pair failed to reach agreement during a week in court last month.
 

The lump sum comprises £14m for Mills’s income needs – put by the judgment at £600,000 per year – and £2.5m to buy a property in London.
 

The settlement involves McCartney paying for Beatrice’s nanny and school fees, as well as £35,000 a year directly for her.
 

Heather Mills made it plain she thought this was a derisory sum. “Beatrice only gets £35,000 a year - so obviously she’s meant to travel B class while her father travels A class, but obviously I will pay for that,” she said. 
 

Some lawyers had predicted sums as high as £100 million could have been awarded in the case.
 

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Jennifer Lopez Million Dollar Babies
 

Money was no object when it came to Jennifer Lopez giving birth: The star spent a whooping $1.4 million  for the arrival of her baby twins.
 

Jennifer gave birth to fraternal twins on February 22 at New York’s North shore University Hospital.
 

The 38-year-old and her husband Marc Anthony splashed out $700,00 to reserve a lavish birthing suite at the hospital, in preparation for the new arrivals.
 

The suite featured white sofas, a Mac computer, private kitchen and two flat-screen TVs. The new parents spent a further $300,000 on  private doctors and nurses, $300,000 on security and $100,000 on personal assistants in the lead-up to the big day.
 

A family insider told US magazine, “Jennifer is doing so well but we have gone through a lot of tissues. Everyone is crying many tears of joy.” Lopez and Anthony took their newborn twins home to their Manhattan home for the first time on February 25.
 

Jennifer’s obstetrician Dr Anita Sadaty told a magazine that the children were born by caesarean section and it was a straight-forward birth. “The delivery went without a hitch. There were no complications whatsoever, Marc was by her side. He and Jennifer are simply overjoyed,” Sadaty said.
 

Last month, a US magazine claimed that JLo and husband Marc Anthony had already decided on baby names. And, the diva’s mother, Guadalupe, was spotted in January collecting two gold-rope baby ID bracelets from a jewellery store in New York – engraved with the names Max and Emme.
 

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Myleene Klass will  launch her very own range of baby clothes and accessories.

The ex-Hearsay star has worked on a Baby K range for Mothercare since giving birth to her daughter Ava last August.

‘I have used my first hand experience, with other mothers in mind, to help design a stunning variety of products,’ said Myleene.

I am so excited about my Baby K range. As a new mum I have used my first-hand experience, with other mums in mind, to help design a stunning variety of products - and who better to do this with than Mothercare, the mama of all stores!

The range is for children up to three-years-old and will launch in August.

We all know that Myleene is an amazing piano player and went on from “hearsay” to have a fantastic solo career, but when did Myleene become a fashion designer? just because a famous person has a baby does this give them the right to exploit the situation? Young fashion designers spend years at collage to earn the right to say they are a designer so what gives Myleene Klass and the others the right.

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On monday the Earl and Countess of Wessex was celebrating the birth of their second child.
 

Edward and Sophie arrived at the Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey, to collect the baby at around 10am before all three left around an hour and a half later. Experts said the as yet unnamed infant could prove especially tiring, needing feeds perhaps twice as often as an 8lb baby.
 

As the couple collected their baby, Sophie

declared: “It’s the best day ever.” The Earl cradled his baby daughter, who showed her sleeping face to photographers, while his wife stood smiling at his side.

Speaking outside Surrey’s Frimley Park NHS Hospital, where his wife gave birth on Monday, The prince edward said the couple were “absolutely thrilled”.
 

The baby, who has not yet been named as yet, because as Edward explained: “You’ve got to get to know the small person who’s just come into the world before you pick a name.
 

The couple’s second child who weighed in at 6lb 2oz, will be known as Viscount Severn.
 

So what will they call their second child, your guess is as good as my one.
 

Well done the both of you on your new bundle of joy!
 
 

 Jessica Alba Is Pregnant - Cash Warren Father To Be
 

The Fantastic Four star Jessica Alba and her boyfriend Cash Warren are expecting their first child together, Alba told People magazine.
 

“I can confirm that Jessica and Cash are expecting a baby in late spring, early summer,” Brad Cafarelli said.
 

Alba, 26, and Warren, 28, have had an on-again, off-again relationship since 2004. Warren, a director’s assistant, met Alba on the set of The Fantastic Four.
 

She recently said she was going on a break from movies but denied it was maternity leave.
 

She said: “I’ve worked the last two and a half years without stopping. This is the time to do it.”
 

In April, after finishing the second Fantastic Four movie, she was asked if motherhood was the next step for her.
 

She replied: “Well I’m learning how to be patient and get up early in the morning.
 

“I’m not very patient at the moment.”
 

Before the pregnancy was announced, she had been in talks to make her Broadway debut in a revival of the David Mamet play Speed The Plow.
 

She was expected to take the role of Karen - the part played by Madonna in 1998.
 
 

Angelina Jolie is expecting a baby this summer with Brad Pitt, Angelina has said. “Yes, I’m pregnant,” Jolie told a charity aid worker in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Monday. The pregnancy has since been confirmed by representatives of both stars.

It have been rumored to be close to breaking up but their friends say their relationship is now better than ever. A close friend said, “Brad and Angelina are giving it another go – because she’s pregnant again, their relationship was in such bad shape, but the baby news has turned everything around.” Earlier this month at Maddox’s sixth birthday party the ‘A Mighty Heart’ actress was seen rubbing her tummy.

 This is the first biological child for Jolie, 30, who is already the mother of son Maddox, 4, whom she adopted from Cambodia, and daughter Zahara, 1, adopted from Ethiopia in July.

Jolie, who has often spoken about expanding her family, added that she’d like to adopt again. In October she told PEOPLE: “There’s something about making a choice, waking up and traveling somewhere and finding your family.”