Beyonce Gives Birth to Baby Girl

 

Preg Beyonce (X17 Online) NEW YORK – Pop megastar Beyonce Knowles gave birth Saturday to a baby girl at a hospital in New York City, according to media reports. Mother and baby were both "doing fine," the Houston Chronicle reported as it broke the news, which was later confirmed by entertainment news website E! Online. The 30-year-old Destiny's Child and "Single Ladies" star is married to hip-hop icon Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter. Jay-Z was telling friends he and Beyonce had named their daughter Ivy Blue Carter, E! Online reported. The couple rented out the entire fourth floor of Lenox Hill Hospital, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, for the birth -- paying $1.3 million, the New York Daily News reported. The newspaper said a hospital staffer had revealed Beyonce had checked in Friday night under the name "Ingrid Jackson." Hospital management reportedly put tape over security cameras and forced staff to hand in their cell phones in an effort to stop unauthorized photographs or footage of mother and baby being leaked. Security guards were also reported to have been sighted outside the building, located off Park Avenue. Beyonce revealed her pregnancy at August's 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, arriving in a dress that showed off her baby bump. Former bandmate Kelly Rowland appeared to let slip the baby's sex in a November interview, saying, "I have no idea what I'm going to buy Beyonce at the baby shower because Jay is going to buy that little girl every single thing possible. She won't be spoiled but she will be very well looked-after." Related Slideshow Marcia Cross was spotted yesterday afternoon with her two daughters Eden and Savannah running errands after dance class on December 17, 2011X17online.com Guess The Famous Parents Click through to see if you can guess which famous stars

The rumor mill has been silenced: Beyoncé actually was pregnant, and the baby was not born last week. Instead, hip-hop power couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z welcomed a baby girl, reportedly named Blue Ivy Carter, Saturday night at New York City’s Lenox Hill Hospital.

According to E! News, Beyoncé gave birth via scheduled C-section, though many sources noted that Bey’s baby came more than a month before her expected February due date. The New York Daily News notes that Jay-Z and Beyoncé tried to tightly control their babeyoncé’s arrival, renting out an entire floor of Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, taping over security cameras and forcing employees to turn in their cell phones.

Most certainly, photos of little Blue Ivy Carter are sure to garner millions, as the baby has been anxiously expected since the moment Beyoncé announced her pregnancy – not-so-subtly displaying her baby bump on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards in August. Since then, fans have speculated widely about the first Carter offspring, predicting names, genders and shower gifts – and breaking Twitter records while doing so. But it turned out to be the couple’s close friends who gave away the tiny details of the tiny one. Kelly Rowland hinted in recent weeks that the baby would be a girl.
And upon confirmation from Jay-Z to his friends, the celebrity congratulations to the proud new parents came flooding in. Russell Simmons and Gwyneth Paltrow, among others, tweeted gleefully, but it was Rihanna who put it best: