From ABC News:

Jolie’s obstetrician, Dr. Michel Sussmann, said the 44-year-old Pitt was at Jolie’s side during the delivery, looking on as the doctor performed a Caesarean section to deliver Knox, weighing in at slightly over 5 pounds, and Vivienne, who weighed 5 pounds.

“He was my assistant,” Sussmann joked.

“He was very happy. … The emotion was very strong for him,” Sussmann told reporters on the hospital steps. “I felt the emotion of both the mother and the father. Angelina Jolie was speaking, was laughing with her husband. They were happy.”

“The mother, the babies, the father are doing marvelously well,” he said.

Sussmann said the Caesarean was moved forward from its originally planned date “for medical reasons” so the babies could be born “in the best conditions.” The doctor did not elaborate.

> Full story…

Congrats to Brad and Angelina!

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Brangelina deliver twins

Dice K is excited about the child and thinks it will help him win a second world series.

It will be the best source to give me power. I will aim for a second straight World Series title. Personally I will have to achieve more and I am convinced I can do better than what I did this season.

According to ESPN, team management was quoted as saying “We’re hopeful that their second child will be born at such a time to allow him to participate”.

Baseball aside, congratulations and good luck!

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Dice K and wife expecting second child

To be perfectly frank, I was not quite sure what a ‘cad’ was at first, but Allwords.com defines the term as “a man who behaves discourteously.”

Close behind K-Fed on the list of reformed hard-lifers was Russell Crowe. More from the Times of India.

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Kevin Federline top ‘cad to dad’

Schilling and his father were very close and his dad actually never got to see him into the majors. However, Schilling owes much of his personal and professional success to his father.

“My father was the glue that held us together. When he died, I kind of lost my family.”

According to an entry on www.fathersandfamilies.com, in a July 2005 interview, “Schilling revealed that in every difficult situation in life, he first asks what his father would have expected of him. In every game he starts, Curt reserves a seat for his father.”

The article is worth a read and it’s nice to see an athlete giving a shout out to dad instead of only saying “hi mom.”

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Curt Schilling still saves a seat for dad

“Nicole and I want to have an army,” he said. “You know, we want to have as many kids as we’re lucky enough to have. I’ve always wanted to surround Max with brothers and sisters and that’s what we’re going to do.”

McGinley sounds like he gets genuinely involved with his son Max, 10, who had Down syndrome, so much so that he won the parent of the month award from iParenting.com in 2002.

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‘Dr. Cox’ from Scrubs expecting

“You have to be absolutely on top of every situation. The other s**t doesn’t work anymore. When they wake up in the middle of the night you have to be there.

And you can’t deal with children when you have a hangover – that’s just a misery!”

Wow, he’s incredible.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not picking on Brad. I do think it’s commendable that someone who lives a fairly fast-paced lifestyle slows things down in recognition of what it takes to be a parent. But if Joe Average made a comment like that, the media would question why he was drinking around his kids in the first place. It just amazes me what makes it into the news!

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Brad Pitt won’t drink while his daughter is choking

Kiedis , the Red Hot Chili Peppers front man’s, and Christie gave birth to their first child on October 2 in LA.
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Anthony Kiedis reveals newborn’s name

The article claims that, according to parenting expert Dr. Michele Borba, grandpa dads may have an upper hand over your average Joe (or Bill) for a number of reasons. Wisdom, experience and financial stability are among the factors. The basic premise of the article is apparently that to be a grandpa dad you need to go out and make millions of dollars so later in life you can impregnate a woman a fraction of your age. Nolte, check. Mattola, check.

Borba claims that age equates directly to wisdom for older dads.

“Number one, you get perspective with wisdom and gray hair, meaning you worry less about the little things,” she explains.

I disagree somewhat as not everyone becomes a wise sage at 55. As people age, they don’t necessarily mature. They often become hardened and stuck in their ways, less concerned with nuances of propriety that are important when instilling values in a child. I would think that the energy required to handle newborns, toddlers and even teens might take the shine off of a wise person’s interaction with their offspring. Keep in mind that while a father may have the energy at age 66 to participate in their child’s life, at age 80 when his kid enters high school things will be much more difficult to manage. But I suppose that age doesn’t matter as much when you have the option of a staff of people and a much younger partner who will help raise the child; all you have to do is step in for the fun times after your age has made you irrelevant. I don’t think that’s fair to the child.

I must say, when I read the article I felt precluded from ever living up to the fathering standard of older gents, until I realized the piece suggests practicing on a ’starter kid’ to make all your mistakes on. I can do that! Nolte has a 21 year old son that he practiced on for many years and so should make a great dad on his second go around. This one won’t have to see all those mug shots plastered all over the news.

Borba goes on to say, “So what if they can’t throw the football with the kids? They can still take their kids to the game.” Apparently, a kid needs a chauffeur more than someone to show them the ropes. It may not matter from the parent’s perspective, but I think it does from the child’s point of view.

The article seems to be more of a commentary on people of privilege rather than true parenting abilities. It is trying to label a trend that isn’t applicable to most. Don’t get me wrong, I have absolutely no problem with senior parents, more so with the spin of the article. In fact, I agree that it’s important that parents have some financial stability and personal maturity before trying to raise a child. I just don’t agree with the assumption that age equals maturity and financial freedom equals free time spent nurturing a child. I think it’s an unfair discount to younger fathers to say that the struggles of parenting are solved with a few extra dollars and some years of gray around the edges.

The saving grace is a quote from Borba on the very last line.

“Above all else, it’s your relationship with your kids that matters, not your age.”

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Grandpa dads?

Researchers at UNLV recently found a correlation between the testosterone levels of men and their status as a husband / long term partners and dad.

The studies, conducted by UNLV anthropology professor Peter Gray, are among the first of their kind conducted outside North America to show that hormone levels differ significantly not only between fathers and non-fathers, but also between single men and men involved in long-term marital relationships. These kinds of novel research on hormones and human partnering represent an exciting new advance in the field and represent one of the frontiers of human biology and behavior.

Fantastic! Between the sleep I’ll be losing and the drop in testosterone, I’ll be crying and falling asleep in front of Oprah in no time.

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Marriage and fatherhood linked to lower testosterone

According to Soparkar,

“I grew up in a family where there have been some adoptions and I thought it is a beautiful thing to do. So when I felt I was financially capable of looking after a child, I decided to go ahead,” he said. He wanted to adopt a girl child but learnt that Indian law does not allow a single male to adopt a girl.

“For single women, the age bar is 20, for a single man it is 30 before he can adopt. A woman can adopt both girls and boys. The scrutiny is not as detailed for a woman,” he said.

Soparkar noted that he had undergone rather intense scrutiny, including an AIDS test as the first male to approach the adoption agency.

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Mumbai’s first adoptive father