Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale have a boy!!

[misswang]

Sources at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles confirm to Us that Gwen Stefani gave birth to a baby boy shortly before 1 p.m. on Friday.

After the C-section delivery, Stefani’s husband, Gavin Rossdale, and Stefani’s father walked out of the operating room and greeted family waiting in a private room. Rossdale announced that the baby had been born and the entire room started screaming and clapping. Sources say the rocker parents are considering calling their son (who was born with a thick thatch of hair) Kingston, or “King” for short.

The couple arrived at Cedars-Sinai this morning, where Rossdale dropped his wife off at the maternity ward, parked Stefani’s silver Range Rover and “seemed a little nervous and checked the baby car seat before he got out,” according to a witness. Rossdale then took the elevator to the maternity ward. “Gwen was wearing her signature red lipstick and looked so excited,” the onlooker added.

Stefani, 36, announced her pregnancy last December during the final concert stop of her band No Doubt. “This is the end of a huge chapter for me,” she said at the time. Her tour completed, the singer spent the remainder of her pregnancy relaxing, swimming, and getting weekly manicures and pedicures near her Los Feliz home in Los Angeles, California.

The couple met in 1995 when No Doubt opened for Rossdale’s former band Bush, and they married in September 2002, in two separate ceremonies in London and Los Angeles. Rossdale, 38, has a 16-year old daughter, Daisy Lowe from a previous relationship…sounds like a built-in babysitter to us. Congratulations!

Source: US Weekly
http://www.usmagazine.com/blog/2006/...fani-in-labor/

[pinkdiamondgrl]

Happy for Gwen...but do ANY celebrities actually go into labor and delivery their babies vaginally anymore? The only ones I have read that actually pushed their babies out were Lisa Rinna and (I think) Reese Witherspoon. I really don't understand all these elective C sections. The recovery from a C section is so much worse.

Do they really want to avoid the last week or two of weight gain and stretch marks that badly? Or are they really that scared to birth their babies?

I'm all for C sections if the health of mother or baby warrants it, but I don't understand why doctors are so willing to do them for no medical reason.

In Gwens case it shouldn't be scheduling issues since she is taking time off!

[LynnieD]

^^Was wondering the same thing. Apparently no one goes through actual labor and delivery anymore. Oh wait, unless you're like me and am not a celebrity or have any clout. No, I'm not bitter.

[IheartParis]

^^no really, I like having a stretched-out and scarred cooter + incontinence. Really! Who wants a c-section?

[Cate]

I've had 4 vaginally and don't have a stretched out cooter!! I also have no problem containing my bowels or urine!

[LynnieD]

^^ Consider yourself lucky!

[Bellatheball]

Wow, whoever said they heard there was a Csection scheduled for today was spot on. Who was that? It was in another thread. Off to look........

[Beeyotch]

Very happy for Gwen!

I haven't had kids, but if I'd had to go through a painful labor and delivery, I might be bitter about celebs who seem to do C-sections to take the easy way out!

I imagine it's probably mostly about convenience, being able to plan and have everything ready and under control, and they have all the resources to do that. But I agree, if it's a much longer and harder recovery than natural delivery I don't much get it.

And I think it's deplorable if some celebs really do it out of vanity to avoid 1 or 2 last weeks of weight gain or because they don't want to deal with the pain. It's labor, the serious business of birthing your child, not a day at the spa!

[GoldDust77]

Is this article really from Us Magazine? There are two very obvious, significant mistakes, and i'm surprised that Us made them. (I'm no big Gwen or Gavin fan, and i spotted them right away.)

Stefani, 36, announced her pregnancy last December during the final concert stop of her band No Doubt.

Gwen was on a SOLO tour. She hasn't toured with No Doubt in a few years. Her solo record was hugely successful & highly publicized, as was the long tour she did in support of it. Strange that Us forgot that Gwen's been a SOLO ARTIST for the past 2 or so years.

Rossdale, 38, has a 16-year old daughter, Daisy Lowe from a previous relationship…sounds like a built-in babysitter to us.

Rossdale & his teenage daughter Daisy (who he didn't even know was his daughter until only 1 or 2 years ago), have NO relationship. Last i heard, the two of them don't even speak. Gavin & Daisy never knew each other, and it sounds like they just continued on with their lives as they'd always been (i.e., not having each other be a part of their life) just as they were before the "big secret" was discovered. This article is making it sound like it's a normal father/daughter relationship, and that Daisy will be around, and could potentially "babysit" her new sibling. Unfortunate & awkward situation, and weird that Us wouldn't know about it.

[angelbaby65000]

Unless you are one of the unfortunate ones to have a complicated delivery (there are sever tears that go from front to back, but they aren't very common) then a C-section is a million times harder to recover from than a vag delivery.

I've had a C-section, and bounced back fairly quickly. But it totally sucks to not be able to carry your baby, to have to worry about that damn incision + the pain. I wouldn't say that I felt totally human until around day 17. Having to take care of a newborn and recover from major surgery is not what I'd call convenient. And my husband took a month of leave to stay home and help me.

C-sections come with a host of possible complications. Unless there is a MEDICAL reason that they are needed, to have an elective one is ill-advised, if not down right reckless.

Celebrities are dumb.

[CherryDarling]

Yay for Gwen and Gavin! I like the name Kingston...

More on this:

It's a boy for Gwen Stefani!
Friday, May 26, 8:00 p.m. ET

Gwen Stefani gave birth to a baby boy at 1 p.m. today, May 26, via Caesarean section at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

Gwen and husband Gavin Rossdale have reportedly named their new son Kingston — King for short.

This is the first child for Gwen, 36, and the second for Gavin, 38, who has a 16-year-old daughter, Daisy Lowe, from a previous relationship.

While pregnant, Gwen admitted, “I don't know what it's going to be like to be a mom. I have to figure that part out.”

Source: http://intouchweekly.hollywood.com/

[sweetrebel]

Originally Posted by Beeyotch

Very happy for Gwen!

And I think it's deplorable if some celebs really do it out of vanity to avoid 1 or 2 last weeks of weight gain or because they don't want to deal with the pain.

I had 2 C sections, and while I had a fairly easy recovery, it's no walk in the park. You may not feel the pain at the time of delivery, but you will feel like a train hit you the next day.
We really don't know if there was some reason she had a C section. It is possible that there was a medical problem that made it necessary....

[Jaded]

Congrats Gwen!!!!

Kingston is a really bad name though.

[darksithbunny]

I don't like the name. Happy for them both though. Csection? Crazy. I had my first 3 vaginal and the last one I had to have csection for emergency reasons and it has been a year and I still have not recovered fully and was told that I may NEVER be the same.

[ang]

I love the name...it's so rad! I'm thinking of jacking it for my baby.