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Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
BREAKING NEWS Joss Stone gives birth to a baby girl! Singer welcomes her fourth child with her husband Cody DaLuz as she reveals her daughter's sweet name
Joss Stone has given birth to a baby girl with her partner and former US Marine Cody DaLuz, as she revealed her daughter's sweet name. The singer, 38, welcomed son Bear via adoption at the end of last year and announced she was pregnant soon after. And on Monday, Joss revealed she had given birth to a girl called Nalima Rose, her fourth child, as she shared a sweet snap from her hospital bed. 'Happy #mummymondays,' she wrote. 'Welcome our beautiful Nalima Rose to the world. we are so in love.' Joss - whose real name is Joscelyn Eve Stoker - also has Violet, three, and Shackleton, two, with Cody. Joss revealed her 'crazy' C-section plans as she gave a bump update just days before she was set to give birth. In a video, shared to Instagram this week, Joss said that she was just days away from meeting her fourth child. She began: 'Ok bump update, I look massive today. This is a big belly. We are four days away pretty much. Baby is coming out on Saturday.' Joss continued: 'The crazy thing is violet goes to dance class and she has a dance recital on Saturday. 'So, I said to my doctor who came to the gig in Nashville, "I'm so sorry but we've got to change the C-section date because baby girl has a dance recital" and he said "don't worry I'll just move it." 'So it moved from 10am to 4pm. So now Vi is going to dance around 1:10pm then I have to be at the hospital for about 2pm. So, it's going to be a crazy day.' The musician captioned the clip: 'Happy mummy Mondays!! I am so excited. Not long now. Eeeeekkkk!!!' Just before Christmas, Joss revealed she was 'shocked' after discovering that she was expecting again after the couple had recently become parents to Bear. The singer officially adopted Bear when when he was just a month old and weighed just 4lbs 12oz - with the couple keeping him indoors during the early months of his life because of premature lungs. The parents, who are now based in Nashville, Tennessee, met in 2020 after Joss fled the UK amid terrifying kidnap plot, with two men - Kevin Liverpool and Junior Bradshaw - convicted of planning to murder the star at her rural east Devon home. They would go on to secretly marry before starting their ever expanding family. In 2023, Joss revealed she and Cody had started the adoption process to expand their brood. Joss told HELLO! magazine of the adoption process: 'We're trying to do our home study. I hope we get to do it. I want, like, 25 kids.' Cody was adopted himself and Joss has previously spoken to her fans on social media about why the pair were keen to adopt a child of their own. She said: 'The reason why Cody even exists is because his bio mum loved him enough to make an adoption plan for him and the same goes for Bear. 'Honestly bio mothers do not get the gratitude they deserve. It is a more selfless love than I knew existed. Truly. We are just so happy to be part of this beautiful cycle.' Last year, Joss revealed she is hoping to move back to Devon from her current base in Nashville in time for her kids starting school because she wants them to enjoy a similar upbringing to her own. She told the Sunday Times magazine: 'We'll move home to Devon in time for Violet to go to school. I want my kids to have the kind of upbringing I did — riding horses, climbing trees and being near my family. I hope Cody likes it over there.' The You Had Me singer enjoys a 'slower' pace of life now she's a parent and she's thankful having children has given her an 'excuse' to ease her busy schedule. She said: 'Having kids makes you go slower. It's given me this wonderful excuse not to cram my schedule. Touring is different now... 'We always go by bus and travel at night, when the kids are asleep. I don't know how it's going to go with two of them because Cody's working as well. We don't want to enlist help but we might have to.'
The Sun
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
I had my first baby just last week – now I'll pay thousands for mummy makeover to feel like myself again
A SCOT who hit headlines for having a baby without a father wants to spend thousands on a mummy makeover. Model Heather McCartney, 36, gave birth last week after falling pregnant using a sperm donor - as she was adamant she didn't want another dad in the picture. 2 2 She received criticism from fellas who couldn't understand why she'd want to do something so big on her own. But now she plans on going under the knife too so her body can bounce back more quickly. Heather, who swapped Ayrshire for Australia, said: "I'm thinking about a little help to feel more like myself again—a new set of boobs. "Some liposuction to gently say goodbye to those stubborn bits, and maybe a mini tummy tuck or scar correction from my C-section if needed. "Having a baby changes your body a lot, so I'd love to feel comfortable and confident in my own skin again. "I deserve to bounce back in style! "Honestly, if any brilliant surgeons are reading this… let's collaborate? I'll bring the sass, you bring the scalpel.' Heather told last week how she . She said: "I had a planned C-section and no partner there. "But my mum came all the way from Scotland to be with me, which made all the difference. Half of new parents believed myths during pregnancy that turned out to be false "Having a team of supportive women around, including the medical staff, felt really empowering and reassuring. 'I'm glad I did it that way—it felt right for me. "As for offers to be the dad, I've had a few messages. "But I'm just taking things as they come and enjoying this new chapter.'
Yahoo
5 days ago
- General
- Yahoo
I regretted giving my daughter her dad's last name. I changed it to include mine also.
I gave my daughter her dad's last name, and I assumed we'd get married and live happily ever after. He left me six months after she was born, and she didn't have my last name. I felt like all the physical effort I made to bring her to the world wasn't reflected in her name. When genetic testing results revealed I was pregnant with a girl, her dad and I spent the first trimester excitedly talking about possible first and middle names. Like typical expecting parents, we lobbed a barrage of contending names back and forth, quickly vetoing any we had a strong negative reaction to. The list of first names we both liked was short, but by the third trimester, we agreed on one we both loved. We didn't talk about her last name in much detail. Though there are no nationwide statistics on how many children are given a surname other than their fathers, it's still the de facto custom for heterosexual couples in the United States. He assumed his daughter would take his last name. I assumed my daughter would take his last name and that he and I would be married eventually, then the three of us would have a family name. I was wrong. In the delivery recovery room, while I was still exhausted from an emergency C-section, we got a standard visit from hospital staff about the birth certificate. Since I wasn't married to the father of my child, the staff member paused and asked if we were sure about paternity. Neither of us contested it. She put his last name on the birth certificate behind the first and middle names we'd carefully chosen on our newborn daughter's behalf. Me, a new mom with a doula and a birth plan and multiple people covering for my maternity leave at work, left a vital detail unexplored: How would I feel with a different last name than my only child? It turned out to be more complicated than I expected. The father of my child excused himself from our romantic relationship about six months after she was born. Leaving me with a broken heart and a daughter with a last name completely different from my own. Along with the shock of unexpectedly navigating life as a single mom with an infant, I was realizing the repercussions of having a daughter without my last name: passport problems, school registration, and a feeling of general disconnect when I said her full name out loud. And since I'm being honest here, calling her solely by my ex's last name felt like a betrayal to all the physical and emotional work I did pregnant and postpartum. How had I disappeared in the name? And less important but still important: I like my last name better than her dad's last name. Mine is easy to spell and pronounce. It sounds nice with her first name. I'm proud of my last name. Sure, I have my dad's last name, but so does my mom. It's our family name. The father of my child did not want to have a family with me — something he didn't decide until after our daughter was born. I had last name regret. But I figured I had to live with it. I consulted a family lawyer and learned that in the state of Wisconsin (where my daughter was born), it's free to change a child's name for the first 12 months of their life. After a year passes, a name change requires a court hearing and a fee. I talked to her dad about hyphenating her last name to include mine and his. He agreed, and I filled out the paperwork online. Her new birth certificate (and eventual passport) arrived in the mail with her new hyphenated name. At 2, my daughter's last name is now legally hyphenated, as a compromise to her dad and to me. If I could do the naming thing all over again, I would have put my last name on her birth certificate in the hospital and told her dad we could change it to a family name if that day came. I've made peace with my daughter's last name and moved on to the other challenges and joys of motherhood. When she's an adult, I'll talk to her about how and why her last name was changed. If she wants to make any changes, I'll help her with the paperwork. Read the original article on Business Insider
The Sun
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Sun
I've given birth after my unique baby news left men stunned – I have no regrets
A MUM has told how giving birth is a doddle when you do it without the dad. Model Heather McCartney, 36, welcomed her second child last week after opting to use a sperm donor. 3 3 3 The single parent received stick from men who branded her desperate because she wouldn't entertain a new relationship. But Heather, who left Ayrshire for Australia, was ecstatic as she welcomed her daughter exactly a decade after she beat cancer. She said: 'I had a planned C-section and no partner there. "But my mum came all the way from Scotland to be with me, which made all the difference. 'Having a team of supportive women around, including the medical staff, felt really empowering and reassuring. 'I'm glad I did it that way—it felt right for me. "As for offers to be the dad, I've had a few messages. "But I'm just taking things as they come and enjoying this new chapter.' Heather decided to put on make-up and give herself a glam look so she could take some special selfies after giving birth. She received lots of compliments afterwards from folk who thought she looked incredible considering what she'd just endured. The blonde pin-up added: 'My C-section was calm and smooth. 'So I felt pretty relaxed afterward. People mentioned I was glowing, which was really kind. 'But honestly, I was just happy everything went well. 'Feeling sexy wasn't really on my mind yet—more like taking it one day at a time. 'People will always love a MILF, so I'm happy to embrace that with a smile.'
CBC
11-06-2025
- Health
- CBC
Halifax hospital aims to prevent unplanned C-sections through 'empowering' technique
There's a superstition in health care that more babies are born under full moons, and now a Halifax hospital is using a strategy named after the lunar phase to try to deliver more newborns without unplanned caesarean sections. The so-called full moon circuit is a series of labouring positions meant to result in "shorter labour, less pain, less fetal distress" and encourage "more spontaneous vaginal births," said Jennifer Jollymore, a clinical nurse specialist on the birth unit at the IWK Health Centre. Jollymore and a charge nurse challenged staff to start using the technique in 2023. Over the course of three months, the IWK's rate of unplanned C-sections — when a baby is born through an incision in the patient's abdomen and uterus — fell to 16 per cent from 24 per cent. While the IWK can't definitively link that drop to the full moon circuit, Jollymore said there's reason for optimism. "We knew that we were just beginning to sort of capture the potential," Jollymore told CBC Radio's Information Morning Nova Scotia on Tuesday. The IWK said in a news release it's looking at creating a "full moon challenge toolkit" for other Canadian hospitals in an effort to lower the rate of unplanned C-sections, which it said can put stress on the patient as well as staffing levels. Frequent position changes During the full moon circuit, nurses help their patients through a circular sequence of lying on their left side, moving to an upright position, lying on their right side, and finally shifting into a forward-leaning position. The sequence helps labour progress by positioning the baby in the pelvis. There's simple science behind the technique: gravity. And while it doesn't actually have anything to do with moon phases, it's a fitting name. "The full moon represents a circle, just like the cervix is a circle and you want to put pressure from the baby's head all around it to help it dilate open," Jollymore explained in a text message. "Plus ... it's a little cheeky, pun intended." Jollymore said there are a number of reasons that a patient might have a C-section, including having the procedure in previous births. Another cause is labour dystocia, when labour has stopped progressing for any number of reasons. Working with epidurals The full moon technique is especially helpful for patients who've had an epidural and may not feel the same need to change labouring positions as people who labour without pain medication, said Jollymore. "Discomfort or pain in labour is adaptive; it's telling us what we need to do next," she said. "Unfortunately when we introduce regional anesthesia, our labouring folks are not feeling those same prompts. "Sometimes epidurals get a bit of a bad reputation for 'slowing things down,' when really ... they're tools and we have to work with them." In her role, Jollymore helps people prepare for their births, especially those with bad past experiences. She said the response to the full moon approach has been "very positive." "Being really active participants in their labour and feeling, you know, that there's things that they can do to help promote their progress is very empowering for people," she said. "They really appreciate it." There are some 4,500 births every year at the IWK Health Centre.
