Zac Hanson and his wife Kate showed everyone their 11 week-old daughter Junia Rosa Ruth. The 25 year old Hanson and Kate, who also has a two year-old son Shepherd, are very excited about their new daughter. Zach and Kate (nee Kate Tucker) were married on June 3, 2006. John Ira Shepherd Hanson was born May 27, 2008. And Junia Rosa Ruth Hanson was born December 15, 2010. (More Info and Photo: Zac Hanson and baby Junia Rosa Ruth Hanson)

Feb
28

Last night Natalie Portman, pregnant with her first child, showed her baby bump on the Oscars’ red carpet with a purple gown by Rodarte. Rodarte also designed costumes for the movie Black Swan, in which Natalie won an Oscar for Best Leading Actress in a film. (Source: Natalie Portman’s Oscar Baby Bump)
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On Feb. 22, 2011 actress Alyssa Milano announced that she was pregnant,  and a few days after, on the 24th, she showed her baby bump in new pictures from the Halls Pass premier in Los Angeles, CA. This will be Alyssa’s first child. Alyssa Milano and her husband David Bugliari were married August 15, 2009 in New Jersey, at the home of David’s family. (Alyssa Milano’s Baby Bump)

The BNC Blog has been away for awhile, but we are back to bring you news on trending baby names (unique, most popular, etc) celebrity babies and their families and general news on parenting and family. We’ll catch up with older news as well, and post news on current happenings too! Stay tuned!

29 year-old actress Jessica Alba and husband Cash Warren are expecting their second child. The couple, who married on May 19, 2008, already have one child, a daughter named Honor Marie Warren, who was born on June 7, 2008 10:07 p.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA.

Jessica made her pregnancy announcement on her Facebook account.

An article by IT News Italy says that Jack and Olivia are the United Kingdom’s favourite baby names, according to the leading Child Trust Fund (CTF) provider, The Children’s Mutual.

The article also mentions that unique names like Apple (the name of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s daughter) and Sunday (the name of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s daughter) haven’t caught on as popular names for ordinary British citizens, despite being used by popular celebrities. (Source)

Sep
30
Filed Under (Baby Names) by Shelley

Here is an article about a woman going though the ups and downs of naming a baby. Some of her guidelines for naming her baby that the baby’s name couldn’t be in the top 100 of the Social Security popular names list. I guess some people don’t like names that are too common; I can understand that! But I’m okay with both common and uncommon names. There are great names in both categories!

Aug
31

Wales Online is reporting that Welsh parents are choosing traditional baby names lately. Baby names like Isaac and Rhys are popular names in Wales.

The article says although people give their kids unique names in other parts of Britain, people in Wales tend to stick with traditional names. (Source)

I think this is cool. Although I do like some unique names, I’m pretty sure if/when I have children,  their names will be traditional as well, and mostly from the bible.

Matt Damon Damonand wife Luciana Welcomed their new baby girl Gia Zavala Damon on August 20, 2008. The family is doing well and Gia is healthy and beautiful.

Matt Damon made a joke about being “out numbered” by all the females in the house, because Gia is Matt and Luciana’s third daughter. Their other two daughters are Isabella, 2,  Alexia (Matt’s Stepdaughter), 10.

Congrats to the Damon Family!

Britney Spears had an interview with OK Magazine recently where she talked about being a mom and about her two sons, Sean Preston Federline and Jayden James Federline, meeting their new baby cousin Maddie Aldridge. Maddie is the daughter of Britney Spears’ younger sister Jamie Lynn Spears. (Source)