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Blue Ivy Carter
Beyonce and Jay Z's baby name. huh...for a "different" celeb name I actually kind of like it.
QOTD: Do you think celebs schedule c/s because they don't want random hospital personnel all up in their business?
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Re: Blue Ivy Carter
I heard on the radio this morning they paid $1.3 million to take over the whole floor at the hospital and I guess security cameras were taped off and everything to protect their privacy - crazy.
In this day and age I can see celebs wanting to do anything to protect their privacy. It's kind of crazy that people can't just give them their space.
ETA: I guess I should sign back into my normal name huh....
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I thought her name was Ivy Blue? In terms of the c/s and why she did it - I have a policy against not judging other women's birth decisions regardless of reason, (short of the mom to be smoking crack for "pain relief" or something.)
And if I could afford to buy out a floor in L&D to keep some freak from snapping pics of my brand new baby and our little fam and selling them to OK or whatev, I probably would.
(because we all know that everyone wanted pics of Coop and me right after the birth.)
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Please don't take my musing about the delivery as judging, to each their own. I agree w/ if I had the $ I would do the same. It would seem more likely for a celeb hooha to be talked about publicly than a regular citizen (outside the nurse break room anyway) so anything I could do to prevent would be in order.
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I know you were "musing" - I just figured I would add in the reason why I wouldn't add in an opinion on that part.
And I laughed hard at the term "Celebrity hooha".
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I just feel bad for all the other patients and families that had to deal with that circus. Some people were told they couldn't visit their babies and had to wait in certain areas so she could come and go and have people visit and drop off food.
I think it might have been a better idea to have her csection at the hospital and then transfer her and baby to a recovery center or something where she could have her privacy and it wouldn't negatively affect other families.
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To me this is a hospital snafu - if they don't have the facilities to close off that much of the place without limiting access to babies, etc, then they should not have made it an option, imo.
I am surprised she wouldn't want to go to one of those super posh recovery center type things, though. If I was drowning in money I would be ALL OVER that shiz!!
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Well said R!
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My personal theory is that celebrities schedule c-sections before week 37 so they don't get irreparable skin or hoo ha damage.
But that's just because I am bitter.
Blue makes me think of Blu Cantrell. I've been humming "Hit 'Em Up Style" all morning long.
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This. I really don't like her to begin with, but this made me not like her even more. From what it sounds like she paid the hospital for a private floor and they couldn't exactly accomodate that and her security people took over. If I couldn't go see me baby in the NICU because you need your makeup artist to come in I would be livid and demanding to talk to the hospital admin.
I think how they chose the name is a little odd too, but that's just my opinion.
To be honest, I can't stand the name Blue. Ivy is cute, though. My coworker's nephew is named Sawyer Blue. I don't like that at all.
As for the hospital thing, if people/paparrazi would give celebrities their much deserved space in times like this, they wouldn't need to spend millions of dollars on locking down hospital wards. And the fact that parents were kept away from their babies in the NICU pisses me off. I don't care if it was only for 20 minutes, or whatever. (I don't know how long it really was, just using that as an example.) Those are their children in the NICU. What if someone kept Beyonce from seeing her child in the NICU? You know there'd be hell to pay for that! But it's okay if she does it to other people?
Looking at the pictures of myself after delivery, if I were a celebrity with paparrazi issues and had the money I would have definitely bought out the floor. The pictures of me are for my DH, baby and I only, no one else needs to see what my swollen face looked like after delivery.
It's unfortunate that it affected others in the hospital but I don't think anyone is to blame but the hospital for that one, they should have realized that tight security would be an issue and made accommodations for the other families.
I also thought the name was Ivy Blue, it's cute. I can't imagine what kind of pressure it must be to have the whole world in your business waiting for baby and then having the whole world feel the need to judge your choices from birth to names. It must be awful. I'll take my anonymity any day!
The truth is spilling out. It was a natural delivery, not a C-section. Also, the hospital said she didn't rent out the whole floor. She paid the going rate for an executive suite. TMZ said something about trying to get the story out of one of the parents who was supposedly blocked from seeing his newborn - but then he couldn't be found anywhere.
I'm so, so happy I'm not famous. I could never handle all of this nonsense.
Also, I love the name!