Mel Gibson Will Pay Grigorieva $10 Million The Moment She Gives Birth

A friend of Mel Gibson’s has told the Chicago Sun-Times that the actor has agreed to pay Oksana Grigorieva, who is carrying his child, $10 million “the moment the the baby is born,”

It has also been revealed that the singer will be guaranteed $40,000 per month in child support until the child turns 18-years-old. Gibson will also pay for the child to be educated privately and will cover the costs of college.

The couple met after Grigorieva was signed up with Gibson’s record label. It is reported that if they do marry, there would be a prenuptial agreement to pay Grigorieva a further $25 million if they are still married in the event of Gibson’s death. She would not be entitled to any further money from his estimated $750 million fortune.

Gibson’s estranged wife Robyn, who was married to the actor for 27 years, is predicted to win half of her husbands fortune in her divorce settlement.

         

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Carrie Anne Burton pregnant

Teenager Carrie Anne Burton, 19, has been chosen from thousands of aspiring Irish models to win a contract with a top agency. Even bigger news is that she’s pregnant.

Carrie Anne Burton, from Downpatrick won the final of RTE’s, “The Model Agent” on Monday.

Chosen by international supermodel Erin O’Connor and well-known model scout Fiona Ellis, she’s sure to enjoy a successful career. In life she’s acheived success as a mother-to-be, due in July.

A series of auditions in Ireland last autumn to came up with 12 finalists. The competition was whittled down to Carrie Anne, Sharon Tuohey from Offaly and Amber Jean Rowan from Dublin.

When she heard that she had won, Carrie Anne said she was delighted.

“I was shocked but over the moon. I’m absolutely ecstatic, I am the happiest person ever!” she said.

Carrie Anne Burton speaking about how she ended up entered the competition, “The high points of the series were London - I loved the buzz of London, the castings and the catwalk and the fashion shoots were great too, I loved everything really apart from the TV commercial casting with Mark Summers. I can’t act to save my life so that was really tough!”

Supermodel Erin O’ Connor said, “Whenever I look back to when I first met Carrie Anne, just in her body language, she exemplified the girl that didn’t know what the hell all the fuss was about!

“I don’t think her looks were her priority, I don’t think she had ever really invested time in pursuing a career in modelling.

“Just the transformation of her being the giggler and the self conscious girl to seeing her hold her chin up high and take on the challenges even when she’s been clearly out of her comfort zone has been very rewarding and quite humbling.”

Ms Ellis predicted a bright future for Carrie Anne.

“She is incredibly beautiful, she also has this character and personality that is very individual and ‘Carrie Anne’ - it makes her very different,” she said.

“She’s quite quirky, she’s a bit scatty, she’s got a great sense of humour, very endearing, I find I want to hang with her more and find out more about her and I think that’s what the clients will love about her.”

She said she had “a great future in the business”.

“Her being pregnant and having a baby has given her a real sense of purpose… When you look around her at her family and her boyfriend who’s very solid, very strong I think she has an amazing support system around her and I think she has a real future.”

         

Mike Tyson’s Daughter Dies After Tragic Accident

Mike Tyson’s four-year-old daughter Exodus has died after a tragic accident.

Her seven-year-old brother found her hanging from a cord which was dangling from a treadmill in their home in Phoenix, Arizona.

Although her mother tried to resuscitate her at the scene, she was rushed to hospital in an “extremely critical condition”. She was placed on a life support machine, but yesterday she was pronounced dead.

The Boxer, who was out of town when the accident occurred, said in a statement:

“There are no words to describe the tragic loss of our beloved Exodus.

“We ask you now to please respect our need at this very difficult time for privacy to grieve and try to help each other heal.”

The injuries suggest that her death was the result of a tragic accident.

Sergeant Andy Hill said: “Somehow she was playing on this treadmill, and there’s a cord that hangs under the console, it’s kind of a loop.

“Either she slipped or put her head in the loop, but it acted like a noose and she was obviously unable to get herself out of it.”

The family have not yet arranged a funeral for Exodus.

         

Adriana Lima is pregnant - Victorias Secret Model

Adriana Lima is, “overjoyed” at confirming her pregnancy publicly.

Supermodel Adriana and her husband, Marko Jaric, have confirmed that they are expecting a baby, due for arrival sometime in late 2009.

The couples representative said: “Adriana and Marko are overjoyed that they are expecting their first child together and are excited to share the happy news and start their family together.”

Marko Jaric (Serbian Cyrillic: Марко Јарић) (born October 12, 1978 in Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia) is a Serbian professional basketball player currently playing for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA.

Adriana Francesca Lima (born June 12, 1981) is a Brazilian model best known as a Victoria’s Secret Angel since 2000 and a spokesmodel for Maybelline cosmetics from 2003 to 2009. At age 15, Lima finished first place in Ford’s “Supermodel of Brazil” competition and took second place the following year in the Ford “Supermodel of the World” competition before signing with Elite Model Management in New York City.

         

Low Birth Weight Babies More Likely To Have High Blood Pressure As Adults

New research has found that babies who are born underweight are more likely to have high blood pressure problems as adults.

Dr. Gerald Berenson has been part of a team studying the health of around 15,000 people in a small rural town in Louisiana over the last 35 years.

He has found that the average birth weight of black babies is lower than for white babies. He found that the health and financial circumstances of the mother did not make a difference.

Berenson said “They are… lighter by a few hundred grams in the blacks compared to whites,”

“So right off, there is a difference in birth weights, and males tend to have heavier birth weights than do females.”

It has been known that underweight babies may have more health problems during their infancy. Low birth weight is considered to be below 2,500 grams at birth.

The study found that babies which were born with a low birth rate had a higher chance of having high blood pressure when in their 30s and 40s.

“It may be because they begin to get higher blood pressure as people get older. And the effect of the low birth weight may become exaggerated at that point.” Berenson commented.

“We know that smoking, for example, affects the blood vessels in the placenta. We know that alcohol is bad,” Berenson he added.

“General nutrition, particularly in the early trimester, is very critical. That development in the early period of gestation is… is very important. So a baby in utero, early in development, is showing the effects of the environment.”

         

Baby Buggies that face forward are, “Traumatic” for children

A study suggests that baby buggies which face forward could stunt the development of children and even turn them into anxious adults.

Researchers found that Babies and children have higher stress and sometimes even, “trauma” in front facing buggies.

Parents attention’s were turned away from the child and were spoken to only rarely, at a stage of life when interaction is critical to development.

In stark contrast, children in parent-facing buggies were more likely to listen to their mothers talking, to sleep and to laugh. Indicating lower levels of stress.

The study carried out at Dundee University, the first to study the psychological effects of pushchairs/buggies, researchers observed 2,722 parents around the country. They found that parents were more than twice as likely to talk to their child if they used a face-to-face buggy, 25 per cent against 11 per cent.

Logically, If parents cannot easily see their infants faces, they may not realise in just how much distress their are in.

The average British child spends up to two hours a day in a pushchair between birth and the age of three, the study said.

         

Exercise Found To Be Beneficial During Pregnancy

Studies have found that an approved exercise program is beneficial for mother and baby during pregnancy.

Dr. Raul Artal, from the Saint Louis University School of Medicine said “We know that women who exercise during pregnancy have less chance of developing certain conditions like gestational diabetes,”

“Not only that, exercise maintains musculoskeletal fitness. Women can cope with the anatomical and physiological changes of pregnancy better when they’re in good shape. They also tolerate labor better and recover more quickly from delivery.”

“Women should be encouraged to continue living an active lifestyle.”

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has recommended that women aim to do at least half an hour of moderate exercise every day during pregnancy.

They reminded expectant mothers to consult with a doctor before starting any exercise program.

Benefits include lower fetal heart rates

Family practitioner, Dr. Thomas Wang in San Diego said “A lot of things depend on the level of fitness they had before,”

Certain activities should be avoided during pregnancy, such as scuba diving, skiing, horseback riding, gymnastics, and high impact sports. Weights should not be lifted above their heads, and there should be no strain to the lower back.

Pregnant women should avoid lying flat on their backs during the second and third trimesters, as this reduces the blood circulation to the fetus.

“Anything that involves impact or the chance of abdominal trauma, they should try to avoid,” Wang commented.

Approved exercises include Kegels, yoga, light dancing, swimming, walking, cycling and aerobics, as long as the woman takes care not to fall.

It is important that when exercising during pregnancy, avoid breathlessness or exhaustion. This may reduce the amount of oxygen the fetus receives.

Also, avoid exercising during hot weather or overheating, as this may affect the development of the baby.

         

“Floppy Baby Syndrome” - Scientists claim breakthrough

Australian scientists claim they have made a breakthrough in the treatment of, “Floppy Baby Syndrome” a rare muscle disease where the majority of babies afflicted die before their first birthday.

The scientific team was able to cure mice affected by the severe disease by replacing a missing muscle protein.

This is an important step towards one day hopefully being able to better the lives of human patients.

The team focussed on proteins called actins. A gene called ACTA1 controls the production of actin in skeletal muscles.

It is key to allowing muscles to contract, but children with this disease have flawed versions of the gene and so the protein is not produced.

However, the scientists had seen that some children with floppy baby syndrome were not totally paralysed at birth.

When these children were studied, it was found that heart actin - another form of the protein - was “switched on” in their skeletal muscles, when that would not normally be the case.

Heart actin is found in skeletal muscles while the baby is developing in the womb, but has almost completely disappeared by birth.

The researchers found it was possible to cure mice genetically engineered to have the recessive form of the muscle disorder by replacing the missing skeletal muscle actin with heart actin.

Dr Kristen Nowak, of the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, who led the study, said: “The mice with floppy baby syndrome were only expected to live for about nine days, but we managed to cure them so they were born with normal muscle function, allowing them to live naturally and very actively into old age.

“This is an important step towards one day hopefully being able to better the lives of human patients - mice who were cured of the disease lived more than two years, which is very old age for a mouse.”

They are analysing 1,000 existing medicines to see if any could increase the amount of heart actin in skeletal muscles.

Professor Nigel Laing, head of the research group, said: “Current therapies only target the effects of these conditions, not the condition itself - we hope our approach could lead to a much greater improvement for a range of muscle diseases.”

Professor Dame Kay Davies, of the University of Oxford, helped create the mice used in the study. She said the findings were promising.

“What we can’t guarantee is if we can find a chemical to increase levels of heart actin enough.

“But we do have an idea of what kind of compounds might work.”

Professor Davies added: “If we could then screen every pregnancy, we could start treating this towards the end of foetal life.

“It could go some way past giving just some movement, but it probably wouldn’t be possible to enable children to run around.

“However they would be likely to have a good quality of life.”

Floppy baby syndrome is distinct from babies who are deemed “floppy” because the development of their gross motor skills such as sitting and crawling is delayed.

         

Baby Surge Takes Brooklyn Hospital By Surprise

One Brooklyn hospital was kept busy last week, where a record breaking 74 babies were delivered within 48 hours.

Staff reinforcements were called in to the Maimonides Medical Center in New York, and an extra wing was opened after their 60-bed labour ward reached it’s maximum capacity.

Eileen Tynion, hospital spokeswoman, said that the hospital averages 40 babies every 48 days. Once or twice a year there is a baby surge of around 65 babies being born in 48 hours.

She was unable to recall any other time that numbers had peaked as high as they did from Tuesday. It is thought that it was due to the recent closure of two Brooklyn hospitals.

         

Sarah Jessica Parker Spends Some Major Money On a Nursery For the Girls

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker is already spoiling her twin girls, who are not due for at least another month, with a lavish nursery.

Sarah Jessica Parker has dropped over £11,000 on her girls’ nursery. Apparently Parker and her husband Matthew Broderick are determined to give their daughters the life of luxury from the minute they are born.

It is rumored that she bought a £3,700 day bed and £4,000 armoire from top furniture company Bonne Nuit, a £3,000 double crib with Louis XIV bedding from Duetta Crib Mate and a £1,000 rocking horse imported from Europe.

An inside source says, “Sarah Jessica and Matthew will spend whatever it takes to make the nursery perfect. They want to give it a classical French look.”

The source also reveals that SJP is already planning the girls’ wardrobes as well. “Sarah Jessica loves Isaac Mizrahi’s tutu dresses and she’s planning to commission him to make personalised versions for her girls.”

The source also added, “She’s also fallen in love with baby Ugg boots for the cold New York winters.”

The girls are due in July and are being born via a surrogate. The couple also has a 6-year-old son.

         

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