Celebrity Baby News

Cobie Smulders (How I Met Your Mother) gave birth to a baby girl in May and she managed to keep it fairly quiet. Way to keep a secret! The baby's name is Shaelyn. What a pretty name.

Something else kept under wraps for a long time (in the world of celebrity that is) is that Tobey Maguire named their son Otis. He was also born in May.

Maya Rudolph (Saturday Night Live aka SNL) is expecting.

Gisele Bundchen is expecting.

Ferdinand Torres (soccer pro) and his wife are due to have their baby in a few weeks.

I'm wondering...do you think personalized baby gifts are popular with celebrities? Some of them come up with some really odd names!

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Jon and Kate Plus 8 Announcement

There is supposed to be a big Jon and Kate announcement (Jon and Kate Plus 8) on Monday's episode. Speculation is that it is about a divorce. Given all the tabloids recently about the two of them, that'd be the easiest assumption.

What are they going to do, film a "Jon and Kate Plus 8 in two separate homes with custody, visitation, and child support" now? Can you imagine splitting up the household, dividing up toys, time, extra help, and having to buy extras for everything for two homes? Dad gets these children's clothes and mom gets these, dad gets these toys for his house and mom gets these, these pictures go to mom and these go to dad, these personalized baby gifts go to mom and the rest for dad, etc. Would the extra help just travel between the two homes? It's hard enough when you only have a couple kids but helping a family of children this size to adjust would be very difficult. It'd be neverending with all of those kids!

Maybe the announcement will be a reconciliation. The network would get more viewers if they turn this into a separation/divorce scenario though. They could probably get a few more years out of the show!

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Kelly Rutherford Gives Birth Without Dad

Kelly Rutherford (Gossip Girl) gave birth to her second child on Monday evening. Her estranged husband, Daniel Giersch, was not present for the birth of his second child. Her camp says they notified him and invited him to the hospital. His camp says they never notified him and claims he heard about his daughter's birth through the Internet. It's certainly not a good indicator of a respectful co-parenting relationship between the two yet. Hope it changes for them in the future.

By this time, Ms. Rutherford should be at home with a houseful of baby gift baskets. I hope dad has seen his baby girl and that they're able to work out a successful co-parenting relationship for the kids.

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