Violet, born February 26, 2010 -There is nothing to say but look at that gorgeous baby! She’s already so alert and looks like she is all in the conversation. SKM Christina Milian looks great too!

See more pictures and full story in US Weekly, on newstands now!

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“Mother, father and son are all doing well,” says Thicke’s rep, while Keys offered her congratulations from the stage.

Take a look back in our Dew Soon gallery to see gorgeous pictures of Paula and her bump throughout her pregnancy. Congratulations!

When I had my son, I recall something like this and it didn’t work too well. This time around, I am anxious to give this a try and see how well this works. SKM and socialite Kourtney Kardashian has teamed up with the Banditas at Belly Bandit to bring you the hot, new postpartum Belly Bandit with that “dash” of style. The Kardashians are known for their great style and trendiness and this new Belly Bandit is no exception. Kourtney has designed this exclusive, limited edition Belly Bandit but it won’t be here for long. Grab yours today before they are gone!

The Belly Bandit™ is an abdominal compression wrap designed to assist you in bringing your body back to its former beauty and proportion after child birth. Postpartum wraps have been known to help reduce the swelling of the uterus, decrease bloating caused by water retention, support your legs & back and provide additional comfort and support for you breast feeding moms. Ultimately the Belly Bandit™ will aid in getting you back to your pre-pregnancy bod faster than ever!

Say bye-bye to the baby bump with a Belly-Bandit wrap!

McCartney’s spring Gap Kids line launches nationwide and online on March 30th, but it comes out in New York City stores today.

To promote it, the Gap has dedicated their White Space concept shop to the collection. Fifth Avenue and 53th Street next to the Gap flagship store is where you will find the pop-up shop. The store opened at 11AM today so if you are in NYC, go forth and shop.

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Why didn’t I think of this? As much as I travel with babies, I could have easily invented this. Leave it to the French folk over at Beaba, best known here in the US for the Beaba Babycook, to come up with this foldable bath.

The foldable bath can be used in a full-size tub, anywhere in the house or outdoors. It folds up very thin for travel (will work awesome in a hotel room) and I think it would be a great product for families with teeny bathrooms. Beaba suggests having a baby use a bath recliner or sit up in it when they’re old enough. We think putting a thick towel or bathmat under the tub would make it comfortable enough for even young babies to use without a recliner.

This is sort of a new product from Beaba and one we hope (fingers crossed) will be available soon in the U.S. You can find out more at Beaba – one place to order from is UK’s Mama and Papas where it retails for £35.00.

“She’s very witty already, and she’s very funny. She makes all these faces! She’s very beautiful, but she’s also got a little spunk to her.”

Enjoy the photos!

Designed by in-house artists, the T-shirts, ($25) are adorned with handwritten phrases in Haiti’s native Creole dialect. 100% of the proceeds go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Make your little one, do big things. To purchase your shirt, click here.

SKM Jessica Alba was seen playing at the park in Beverly Hills on Wednesday (March 17). The mommy-daughter duo played on the slide and swings, went for a wagon ride and even got dirty in the sand. Little Honor wears green for St. Patty Days. She is such a  cutie. Here are some more photos from their park playdate.

Jessica Alba, Honor Marie Warren

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This park must be a popular park.  SKM Halle Berry and Nahla were there just last week. I wonder if they’ll ever have a playdate?

In a recent interview with OK! Magazine, SKM Kimora Lee Simmons shared lots of details about her family-baby Kenzo, Ming and Aoki Lee and partner Djimon. She dishes about her new clothing line and how she’s lost almost 50 pounds since having cutie Kenzo.

On the subject of adding more kids to the brood:

“I can definitely see myself having more. I know Djimon wants more. I would love to have another little boy.”

On being the more strict parent:

“I’m very tough around the house,” she says. “We don’t watch a lot of TV. Bedtime, it’s a set time every day – it’s 8:00. We read, read, read. If anyone tells me, ‘mom, I’m bored,’ mom gets out the homework.”

She continues, “We do tutoring 2-3 times a week religiously because we travel so much. The girls are on TV, too, and the girls are at Fashion Week, too. They have a little extra perks in life. They work extra hard sometimes. It’s very tough. They’re not forced to do it. They don’t have to come out on the runway and wave. They want to do it. If you want to do that, you have to have all your homework done before the other kids do because the other kids aren’t on the runways at night.”

For Ming and Aoki, TV time is restricted to 30 minutes of educational programming per day on channels including National Geographic and Animal Planet.

“I’m not saying it’s banned, but we don’t do all the kiddie channels and the non-educational crap and the things that melt your brain,” she says. “They watch some kids shows, but I feel like their brain should be always active and they should be learning and they should be inspired to be creative. I don’t want to put them in front of the TV and let them melt into nothingness. I want everything to be educational and constructive about their time and their creativity. I want them to expand their minds, and not to be tunneled in by garbage you see on TV. It’s too much.”

On her reality show, we often got a glimpse of the meals being prepared by the family’s personal chef. She’s thankful they eat healthy and aren’t very picky:

“They don’t eat crap; they don’t watch crap. They’re not those kids. They eat lots of vegetables, they eat salads. They eat very, very healthy. They take a lunch to school. I prepare it for them every day. They don’t always eat at school. They don’t do a lot of sweets. Sweets are definitely a treat.”

Kimora is of African-American, Korean and Japanese decent and Djimon is African. How are they balancing all this culture under one roof is a question many people probably wonder:

“I expose the children to a lot of different things,” she says. “Now we’re focusing on French because Djimon is French, and speaks fluent French. Culture also comes into our diet. We eat lots of Asian food, lots of African dishes. We try to expand our horizons. The girls have gone to Africa, the girls have gone to different areas in Asia. They’re well-rounded individuals, and they’re very interesting young people. I’m very blessed.”

My favorite part of watching her reality show was tuning in to see the family get ready to tackle various destinations. For them, travel is a very important part of their life:

“We travel a lot,” she says. “We go to Europe and Asia; we go to the islands. It’s a lot. It’s a lot to get everything together and lug all your kids and their gear everywhere, but it’s well worth it, and it’s a lot of fun. I think it’s important to create those milestones for children, and to expand their horizons and let them see the world and the people around them so they know they’re not the only ones.”

If you think being rich and famous will mean that Kimora is raising snobby children, think again:

“I want them to know that I love and support them no matter what their choices are in life,” she says. “I can’t make their choices for them, but I hope to try and guide them in the right way, and teach them about compassion, spirituality, caring about others and caring about yourself. Self-respect, and respecting others.”

She adds, “Anyone who knows my kids will say they’re very well-behaved, and that’s no easy feat. That’s nothing you can do by raising your kids on the sidelines or letting someone else do it for you. I’m a very, very hands-on, involved mother. My life revolves first and foremost around my children, and everything else has to fall into place and take a backseat to that.”

I love Kimora and can’t wait to see the new season of Style Network’s Kimora: Life In The Fab Lane, which premieres March 21 at 9/8c. Tune in for your dose of fabulousness!

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Kimora Lee arrives at the 18th annual Elton John AIDS Foundation Oscar Party held at Pacific Design Center on March 7, 2010 in West Hollywood, California.

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In an effort to spread the word, Baltimore City Healthy Start hosted its 3rd annual Cradle of Hope luncheon to underscore the importance of comprehensive health services for pregnant, postpartum and interconceptional women. Sunkissed Mommy Nicole Ari Parker and her husband Boris Kodjoe were keynote speakers at last Friday’s event, and shared why Healthy Start’s mission is personal to them.

“My husband and I had our first child and when she was born the doctor and the nurses took her away from me very quickly and they found a dimple on her back, low on her spine,” said the Baltimore native, who plays a litigator in the ABC drama “The Deep End.” “They told me it was spina bifida and of course I didn’t even know how to spell spina bifida.”

Five-year-old Sophie was born with the neurological birth defect of the spine that occurs within the first three weeks of conception. Its effects vary but have left some children with brain damage or confined to wheelchairs. However, Sophie functions just like other children her age—for the most part.

“We have to catheterize her every three hours,” Parker said. The couple started started Sophie’s Voice Foundation a year and a half ago to support family outreach programs, prenatal education and surgical studies for children and adults with spina bifida. The couple is also opening a clinic in Africa to help children who don’t have the same support as Sophie, who takes medication, receives acupuncture massages and maintains a healthy diet.

Click here for the full story.

To find more about Sophies Voice, visit the website here.

Image: Courtesy Cradle of  Hope