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Kids can test out their medical and parenting skills for hours with the newest addition to Hasbro’s Baby Alive Better Now Baby ($20).
My 4-year-old daughter has literally spent days with this adorable doll (ours is currently named Niela, after one of my daughter’s favorite playmates), fascinated by her pink thermometer, her handy medicine spoon (with disappearing medicine), her sippy cup and nasal aspirator.
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Yum! After a trip to Whole Foods for some grocery shopping, Cheryl Hines and daughter Catherine Rose stop off for some sweet treats at Pinkberry on Tuesday in Beverly Hills, Calif.
Catherine, 5, is the only child for the Curb Your Enthusiasm star and husband Paul Young.
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It’s a boy for Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia and wife Kelli!
Following a scary bout with preterm labor last month, Kelli delivered son Dylan Pedroia on Tuesday, August 18th. Baby boy — the first for the couple — weighed in at 7 pounds, and Dustin was able to be present for the birth after hopping a last-minute flight to Boston.
Dustin’s teammate Kevin Youkilis was quick to voice his congratulations. “I think it’s a great thing after all she’s been through and Dustin’s been through, mentally,” the Red Sox first baseman said. “We always joke about dad strength, so hopefully he comes back and keeps hitting home runs. It’ll be a great thing for him.”
While manager Terry Francona is no doubt also hoping that the newest member of Red Sox Nation will translate into increased production from Dustin, he said there is no timetable for his return. “I told him his first responsibility is Kelli and that child,” Terry explained. It is a sentiment which was echoed by Kevin, who added,
“We don’t know when he’s going to come back, and he can take his time, because having your first child, that’s a great thing in life, and we’re excited for him.”
Sources: MLB.com, Providence Journal
Thanks to CBB readers Mary Beth, Maddy, Abby and Victoria.
– Missy
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Although Kelly Rutherford went on to enjoy a lengthy nursing relationship with son Hermés Gustaf Daniel, 2 ½, things weren’t always so easy. In a new interview with Best for Babes, the 40-year-old Gossip Girl star reveals that she had “every problem” imaginable during her first few weeks postpartum, including chafing so severe her toes would curl when Hermés would latch! “You’ve just had a baby, and you want everything to be perfect,” she says. “You want to give your child everything you can, so I called everybody.”
Unfortunately, the advice she received was often either incorrect or off-the-mark. “One person told me the skin under the tongue might be too short and might have to be cut, and even though it freaked me out, I got it checked and ruled out,” she explains. “And I had some woman tell me I had to pump because I was engorged, but I wasn’t even that engorged, and I should have just breastfed him.” Kelly goes on to recall,
“At the beginning you don’t know, you’re just so new, and everything is so overwhelming, and everyone is telling you something different, and your husband is sitting there looking at you, and he’s trying to figure out how the pump works in the middle of the night, the whole thing is just cuckoo.”
With the birth of daughter Helena Grace, 10 weeks, Kelly has benefited from the experience she gained with Hermés. She singles out putting baby to the breast immediately after delivery as the most important step in establishing a good breastfeeding relationship. Helena went “right on the boob” and Kelly says she’s “had no problems” as a result. “It was a big difference from the first birth, with my son, which was a very long one, so they thought, let me rest a little bit, but then by the time I breastfed him it had been a few hours,” she explains.
“With my daughter — obviously the doctor made sure that everything was okay — but I didn’t do all of the procedures they recommend right away. I did the least amount that was necessary that was still healthy, so that my daughter would be able to latch right away.”
Hermés and Helena are Kelly’s children with estranged husband Daniel Giersch.
– Missy
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Peter Facinelli keeps a tight grip on daughters Fiona Eve, 2 ½, and Lola Ray, 6 ½, while out and about in Vancouver, British Columbia on Tuesday.
Accompanying the trio were Luca Bella, 12, and Jennie Garth (not pictured).
The “Facinelli Five” is currently in Canada while Peter films the third Twilight movie, Eclipse.
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Céline Dion, now expecting her second child, is “very excited,” says her doctor, Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, who performed the in vitro fertilization procedure that made the 41-year-old singer’s pregnancy possible. When he called her earlier this week to say the pregnancy test was positive, “You could hear her chuckling,” he says. “She was very happy. So was René. They are both very thankful.”
Dr. Rosenwaks, director of the Ronald O. Perelman and Claudia Cohen Center for Reproductive Medicine at New York-Presbyerian Hospital/Weill Cornell Center Medical Center, transferred a embryo that had been kept frozen in liquid nitrogen for the past eight years. “She is very, very early in her pregnancy,” says her doc.
Céline had her embryos frozen when she went through IVF while trying to conceive her first child, René-Charles, who was born in January 2001. When she completed her performance run in Las Vegas in 2007, she consulted Dr. Rosenwaks about trying again. “She came back to have the embryos transferred back because she wanted to have another baby,” he says.
According to the fertility specialist, freezing an embryo for eight years is not necessarily a problem. “There have been embryos that have been [frozen] for more than 10 years, and even more than 15 years, that have successfully thawed and resulted in a pregnancy,” says Dr. Rosenwaks.
Meanwhile, the doctor says, “She is feeling well. So far, so good. I look forward to hearing the fetal heartbeat. René and Céline are both looking forward to a pregnancy that is a healthy one.” He adds, “There is no question she is ecstatic.”
Céline is due in May 2010.
Source: PEOPLE
– Liz McNeil
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He used to live the “vida loca,” but life has slowed down considerably for Ricky Martin since welcoming his fraternal twins, Matteo and Valentino, by gestational surrogate last August.
Sharing personal photos of himself enjoying the sun and surf with the boys on his Web site, Ricky, 37, says that fatherhood “feels amazing.”
“I’m so happy! Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing,” Ricky says of his 1-year-old twins. “This has been the most spiritual moment in my life.”
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