The baby’s dad is Francois-Henri Pinault, the billionaire boss of the Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent fashion empire and PPR luxury brand.

The couple plans to get married early next year. Valentina is the first child for the actress and her boyfriend.

She was quoted saying that: “Motherhood is not for everyone. It is for me.”

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After many ups and downs, the twins have finally be released from the hospital, allowing the family to be together for Thanksgiving.

Nancy posted this message about the homecoming on her CNN page:

Am finally home with both twins and am so blessed. Your prayers and kind thoughts are so powerful, thank you. I wish you could see the twins right now. Even in separate bassinets, they turn their heads the same way, make the same motions, the same sounds, the same expressions. They are so bonded after being together for all those months. it makes me happy to know they will always have each other, I pray!

Being in the hospital for those two weeks was really something, but leaving the twins behind when I was discharged was the worst. Then, after John David came home, I could hardly stand leaving little Lucy there alone each day.

I am the happiest person in the world now that we are all together again. They still quiet down when I sing to them, the same old songs. Today, I held them, alternating one then the other, for five straight hours! We spent the afternoon, them eating and sleeping, I just watched their faces.

They look so much alike, Lucy just a minature version of her big brother! He is older by exactly one minute. I hope to introduce them to you when I come back to the airwaves if they are up to it. They are so tiny and fragile. I think you will love them too!

What a Christmas this will be!!

I still can’t believe something so wonderful happened to me! Dreams really can come true! Ngrace”

We look forward to the first photo of the family together!

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The little princess shopped in Lisa Kline Kids and Kitson with a mob of photographers in tow.

She is pictured here admiring a pink dress shown to her by her daddy, Larry Birkhead.

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The bells and whistles are sometimes only good for a little while because they are predicable. They do the same thing everytime you press the same button.

I like that this train has many different pieces that can be put together to create a new toy everytime.

There are wooden posts to help teach stacking skills and about 25 shapes that can be configured about a million different ways.

This nostalgic wooden toy is made in Thailand. A country known for its safe, beautiful woods and superior wood-working tradition, Thailand is an active member of the International Tropical Timber Organization, a group that’s dedicated to forest conservation and the sustainable management of environmental resources.

$38 at Babystyle.com

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A UK woman who became pregnant after a one-night stand yesterday won the right to keep the existence of her baby a secret from its father.

 

In a landmark decision, three Appeal Court judges agreed that the 20-year-old single mother has “the ultimate veto” over whom should be told about the child, who is being put up for adoption.

The mother, who’s identity is being kept private, hid her pregnancy from her family, colleagues and the father.

The baby girl, known only as E, was delivered in June and was left in hospital shortly afterwards.

The mother she asked for the child to be put up for adoption, but the county court ordered that her parents and the father should be told to give them the opportunity to apply to adopt.

Friday, the judges decided the father had no rights over the child, who is now in foster care, because “he was only a one-night stand”.

And they banned the local authority and guardian from taking any steps to identify him or telling him about his daughter.

The mom is said to be 19 and didn’t learn about the pregnancy until a late stage.

She was unable to bring herself to tell her parents she was pregnant and drove herself to hospital in the middle of the night to have the baby.

The judges heard that the pregnancy resulted from a “one-night stand” with a colleague while both were “on the rebound having broken up with long-term partners”.

 

“He is now back with his fiancee, continuing with that relationship and he has no idea she has given birth to his or any other child.”

This dad deserves to know that he has a baby. It is sad that no one even gave him the option to step up and take custody of her.

It is not the judges job to protect this girl from her mistakes. She is supposed to be a neutral body that is appointed to do what is best for the baby. Being in foster care until she is found an adoptive set of parents is not what is best for the baby. The ideal situation is always to be with a family member.

Former Home Secretary David Blunkett, a champion of fathers’ rights after his paternity case over his son by Kimberly Quinn, said: “We as a society should not be expected to be the father and mother of the child when at least one of them has been excluded from accepting responsibility.”

“Perhaps the judiciary should take a collection to pay for the arrangements for care and subsequent adoption, because obviously someone pays in such circumstances.”

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Little did she know that she was going to give birth to a little giant.

When Jack arrived at 37 weeks he weighed an astonishing 14lb 8oz.

Health problems kept him in the hospital for 4 months after his birth.

Tests showed that Jack had grown so big because of a condition called hyperinsulism which causes the body to produce too much insulin, leading to weight gain.

His heart muscle had thickened since it had to work extra hard because of his size.

At the age of 14 weeks he had 95 per cent of his pancreas removed to treat his condition. The operation was a success and doctors allowed him to go home with medication.

Today, Jack weighs nearly 22lb, compared with the average weight at six months of 16lb, and wears clothes for a child aged 12 to 18 months.

Sara describes him as “such a happy baby, always laughing and giggling. People can’t believe that he’s only six months old when I take him out in his pram.”

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So why did they appear in circulars for Toys “R” Us and Target this weekend? Toys “R” Us says Aqua Dots are not actually for sale, just that the circulars were printed weeks in advance.

I guess the biggest issue here is carelessness. It looks bad that a toy chain as big a Toys “R” Us can’t take the time to make sure that their flyer’s are current and free of recalled products, especially ones that were as high profile as this one.

Nine children in the United States and three in Australia have gotten sick from the tainted kids toy.