Congratulations to both Heidi and Seal. I love them as a couple i really think they are wonderful for each other. Just a note though to those who do not know that Johan is quite a popular name from where I am from. (South Africa) I recently watched e news where I heard them pronounce it incorrectly. You pronounce the name like YOU-HUN thats what johan sounds like. It is popular here as an Afrikaans name which is a language here that is very similar to Dutch and German.

I am very curious about the NAMING (IF YOU WILL)… Leni, Suri, and I’m sure there are MANY MANY other children…. Anyone have any insight why one child may have 5, 4, 3, 2, or just 1 name?

Heather: That´s not true. Most German people I know have middle names, but it´s true, it´s more common to not have one than in the US.
Danielle: Even if Lenis middle name is not Kaffes, what does the Kaffes mean? Is that a surname or a firstname? I have never heard it.

I don’t know if it is the case or not, that Leni’s name is JUST Leni Klum- but with my experiences living in Germany, it is much more common than not for german children to only have a first and last name ( no middle) So much so that on the birth certificate application ( at least here in Bavaria where my daughter was born) there is no place to fill in for a middle name- just first and surname…

Leni doesn’t have a middle name.

Congratulations Heidi, Seal, Leni and Henry!! I love your family and wish you all well. God Bless

Yogadaisy, for what it’s worth, I had both a vaginal delivery and a c-section, and at least in my case, the c-section experience and recovery were much, much better.

She didn’t go past though – she was due Friday and the baby was born Tuesday, so three days early. She was early with Leni too, and late with Henry.

Just to speak again about the name of that new (wonderful I’m sure) baby ; Johan is just like John in english, Jean in french, Juha (or Juhani) in finnish, Giovanni in italian, Juan in spanish ; but in german is alaways written with 2 “n”, with 1 “n” it’s more in danish, dutch or swedish…

Mo, I doubt Heidi’s c-section was due to an 8 lb baby. This was her third and an almost-9 lb baby isn’t really that big anyway. I suspect that since she went past her due date she chose to be induced which is a leading cause of c-sections.

Whatever the reason, it’s got to be hard to have your third child be surgically delivered after having two vaginally, both the physical recovery and psychological recovery from that is going to be rough.