Harris treats his and Burtka’s twins, boy Gideon and girl Harper, born in October 2010, as if they were his peers – as he told PEOPLE. That’s the attitude his father and mother took with him and his brother, he recalled. They used to talk to them “like we were regular people and not babies.”

Consequently the actor and magician never uses baby talk but talks to his twins as if they understood everything and are just temporarily unable to respond.

He rejoices in the company of his babies whom he describes as the perfect young ones to raise the man’s spirits – “huggy, clingy, head-on-shoulders,” giving Harris, 38, and Burtka, 36, “fantastic” experience.

Last weekend, nevertheless, the couple took leave of the babies to attend Audi’s Penthouse party on Friday night and then the Super Bowl in Indianapolis, Ind.

Before they left Harris tweeted that he was all agog to explore the place and spend a Super Bowl weekend and just didn’t know what to begin with. He thought of going to a football game on Sunday, but had a sudden change of heart on the eleventh hour.

There were crowds everywhere, he shared with PEOPLE, telling he lost the desire to hang about the town. “It’s madness.” What he seemed to have preferred was a quiet evening with a book.

The study, conducted by the scientists from Cornell University, has shown that children, unlike adults, prefer bright and colorful dishes. For example, a child will gladly eat even broccoli and fish from a plate, which is decorated with seven different images and painted with 6 colors. Adults need only three items and three colors in the picture. So, it is not the parents’ remark, but the color of the plate that is crucial for the child when he or she sees porridge or steamed vegetables.

By the way, last year the British Tesko company invented another way to feed little fastidious kids with tasteless cauliflower. The company has raised cauliflower, which is literally colorful. Purple, yellow, green cauliflower is colored this way not because of the use of chemical substances. Cauliflower has just been hybridized with other species, including broccoli.

The symptoms of poor sleep can be characterized by snoring, the syndrome of “restless legs”, the difficulty in falling asleep (more than 15-20 minutes), nightmares, insomnia, and night terrors.

It is needless to say, that restless sleep affects the child’s daily activities in a negative way. Sleep is an important part of development. The development of cognitive skills and the ability to think, learn and analyze also depend on whether the child gets enough sleep, especially at the age from 1 to 3 years.

Not all parents pay attention to the child’s snoring. Such a situation is normal if the baby has a cold, but there should be no snoring in the baby’s usual state. Snoring during sleep is a clear message that the child may be prone to sleep apnea and various breath problems during sleep. If the disease develops and is not treated, the consequences can be very unpleasant: an increased risk of hypertension, heart disease, obesity and diabetes.

If you notice that your child has sleep problems, try to stick to the regime, walk in the fresh air more often, offer your child to play active outdoor games, and provide him or her with a healthy diet. If you cannot get rid of the problem in such a way, go to the doctor immediately, especially in the case of sleep apnea.

How does it affect her eating habits? Kourtney is on a diet which does not come from a doctor but her own stomach.

She eats anything – that is, that her stomach allows her to, which is not much. This time around, she says, “there is less I can tolerate.”

Some more time should pass before the 32-year-old Kourtney and Kim Take New York star learns the sex of the child, but she gives out that she has a pretty shrewd guess. Nevertheless, being asked if she cared to know, she said she did.

The one-year-old’s great surprise was the first ever cake in his life! Kerr, who graced the occasion with her cooking, shared the details with PEOPLE as she debuted as the Qantas airways ambassador. It was an organic cake, gluten-free, she said Thursday, and Flynn, who had never seen one before, started the celebration with putting his face in it.

The happy parents also called in a balloon man to provide balloons – which Flynn adores – in large quantities. There were also activities for the boy’s friends.

The inexperienced baby was able to last for only a couple of hours, added the Victoria’s Secret Angel, 28. Then the boy adjourned for his nap.

It’s new discoveries for Flynn’s parents every day, Kerr said, as he is exploring his abilities and “almost walking,” making his parents proud of him.

Bloom, 35, is always there to play his dad’s part, she added, delighting her with the way he rises to the occasion every time and feeling glad to be a father.

This will be the third child for the Capshaw-Gavigan family. They already have 4-year-old son Luke Hudson and 14-month-old daughter Eve Augusta. The actress’s hubby, Christopher Gavigan, used to be CEO with Healthy Child Healthy World and set up The Honest Co.

Capshaw, 35, shared on Tweeter their “profound happiness and sheer delight” at the news of her pregnancy, and Gavigan chimed in posting they “are thrilled.”

Naturally, there was a safety glass wall between Sofia Walker, 3, and the lion Malik, but that did nothing to diminish the ferocity with which the animal tried to get at the girl with his paws. It paused and then continued to strike at the glass making his anger manifest – yet failing to get the undaunted girl to cringe away from the sight.

The Wellington Zoo’s Paul Hatton explained that the threatening pawing was intended to show that Malik wasn’t going to share his breakfast with the girl.

Now it seems almost certain that she will make Billboard history of the earliest debut – in a duet with her papa, of course.

Blue Ivy’s arrival at Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC, on Saturday sent the overjoyed Jay-Z to the recording studio where the 42-year-old rapper poured out his feelings – “the most amazing” ones, according to him – in a song called Glory. The track included Blue Ivy’s vocal talents as she performed background cries to her daddy’s rapping. By current appraisals the duet will debut on this week’s R&B/hip-hop chart on Thursday at No. 74.

Commenting on the newborn’s chart success to the New York Daily News, Bill Werde, the magazine’s editorial director, called it a “historical” event in the charts’ existence of over 70-year span.

Meanwhile the youngest debut hitmaker came home from the hospital on Tuesday. Us Weekly reports that her parents are beyond themselves with emotions. Jay-Z and Beyoncé said they are “in heaven” after the birth that was “extremely peaceful” and offered thanks to all their fans who voiced their love, support and well wishes on the happy occasion.

Sharing her plans with PEOPLE, Fergie says this year may be the one to expand her family after three years of marriage to Josh Duhamel, 39. She intends to concentrate on the special man in her life, who has been staying around since 2004.

When asked at the grand opening of The Mirage’s 1 OAK Las Vegas on New Year whether her family plans include a baby, the singer replied: “Maybe, who knows? We’ll see.”

Fergie, 36, got the crowd heated up with Kanye West, but her thoughts are straying in another direction. She is thinking of staying at home more, being tired of “having to sleep in a different city or country every night.” Redecorating the home is another great 2012 plan – but if the changes will be revolving around a nursery, the singer didn’t say.

But first and foremost is togetherness. What she is looking forward to most is doing things with Duhamel, watch sports events, living out her life without having to keep to a schedule – in other words, have her life “nice and refreshing”!

As reported by The Daily Mail, the midwife felt premature contractions a few hours after she went home from her work at hospital in the evening of December 10. According to the 28-year-old woman, it was the first birth, so she knew that the contractions would be long. The woman decided to wait, until they subsided.

Despite this fact, the frequency of the contractions continued to increase, and the pregnant woman decided to move to the bathroom. The woman’s relatives called the team of doctors. However, Clarke-Wood managed to give birth to a child before their arrival. She delivered the baby, using a small make-up mirror and towels.

The midwife gave birth to a daughter in the morning of December 11. The weight of the newborn girl was about three kilograms.

Clarke-Wood has been working as a midwife at Croydon University Hospital since 2008. According to the newly formed mother, she had assisted the delivery of thousands of women during the period of her work, and many of those women gave birth at home.

As the following splash of counter current when conspiracy theorists tried to prove that it was a practical joke and the baby bump was really a prosthetic belly petered out ignominiously denied by the singer, the Internet started running up heat all agog for the due date to come.

Although neither Beyoncé and her husband Jay-Z nor their reps venture any information at all about the birth and there are no official reports, it seems that the silence only serves to add fuel to online gossip, speculation, inferences and poor Photoshop feats.

The Beyoncé Baby Watch did take blogs by storm. From the spate of messages it emerges that the pop diva was taken to a hospital in New York and has already gave birth to a girl, the couple’s first child. The parents named her Tiana-May Carter, borrowing the name from Disney’s The Princess and the Frog where the first black princess was called Tiana.

There is even an alleged baby photo around showing a rather unprepossessing little one. Wonder how much of this will be officially confirmed?

Ambrósio, 30, and her fiancé businessman Jamie Mazur, already have 3-year-old daughter Anja Louise. They have been a couple since 2005.

The Victoria’s Secret model keeps true to her word, as she had expressed her wish to have another baby earlier this year.

The 28-year-old Iraq war veteran shared with PEOPLE exclusively that he and Gonzalez-Jones had learned last week that they are going to have a girl – their first child together – late next spring. “We are over the moon,” says Martinez.

The couple met in 2008 when Martinez got a part to play on All My Children and Gonzalez-Jones was assisting the executive producer. They hit it off almost instantly, but first as friends. They stayed bosom friends for two years before they decided they could opt for more. According to Gonzalez-Jones, they proceeded smoothly without any hard-felt adjustment. “We just clicked right away,” she told PEOPLE.

Martinez says that he is going through psychological adjustment getting used to being a father. He finds it hard to take in all of the year’s surprises, blessings and opportunities. He calls Diana’s baby bump “the cutest thing ever” and is sure that 2012 is going to be even better for them than the passing year!

As the actress was caught on camera in Santa Monica on Thursday talking into her cell phone, she showed an unmistakable baby bump tucked nicely under a thin crocheted sweater and a vest worn over jeans.

Having tried for a while to conceal the fact by wearing loose-fitting clothes, Hannigan came unclammed finally – her rep informed Us Weekly exclusively that she has been heavy with a child for some time.

There is also a confirmation from an inside source that the 37-year-old actress is pregnant – and “is thrilled to be”!

Hannigan is married to actor Alexis Denisof, 45, whom she met on the cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and later on Angel. They have been married for 8 years and are parents of daughter Satyana, 2.

Discussing the birth of her daughter with Us Weekly back in 2010, Hannigan said that her life had taken a momentous change, and she believes her motherhood was the greatest blessing given onto her. “It filled a void I never knew was there,” she added, calling Satyana a great baby and motherhood the most amazing thing in the world.

The doctors insisted on a surgery, especially since the woman in labor was 40 years old, weighed 240 kg and suffered from gestational diabetes. However, the brave mother not only refused to give birth in any other way, except the natural one, but she did not even try to change her habits before delivery (the woman used to eat about a kilogram of sweets each day) and would “ease” the contractions with chocolates.

Nevertheless, she gave birth to a baby without any problems. And it is not surprising since it is her 14th child.

After a wearisome struggle ending in two miscarriages, the British singer gave birth to a girl on Friday – an event that is sure to delight the 26-year-old and bring welcome changes to her family life.

Her first miscarriage occurred in 2008 when Allen was into her fifth month with a baby with musician Ed Simon; her second one hit her almost a year ago at the sixth month of pregnancy.

Allen’s husband, her great love, businessman Sam Cooper, father of her child, proposed to her last Christmas on the Indonesian island of Bali. They wed half a year later, in June, at St. James the Great church in Glocestershire, England.

The name of their first child hasn’t been revealed yet.

But surely this is not the case with Adele Enersen, who has no possibility to express her creativity in professional work, as she is on maternity leave. Adele devotes all her spare time to the baby, even when it sleeps. She makes photos of her daughter Mila and creates some special worlds around her, using the materials which come in handy: towels, clothing, household items. The main thing is to act quickly and quietly, because the child can wake up any moment.

The 37-year-old Grammy Award winner has an almost-a-year-long motherhood experience, having given birth to son Ever Imre last Christmas (now 10 months) by husband Mario “Souleye” Treadway – and with that she started off upon a journey to the unknown.

She began to sum up her experience on her blog on iVillage starting Monday, and the first thing she confessed was her astonishment at how bad she had been prepared for the new life. True, she had brushed up some on how to deliver by watching DVDs, but the actual experience of a tiny human being emerging from her body was so overwhelming as to exceed her expectations.

After that, she wrote, she relied on her usual approach of rising to the occasion… Only to discover that her life had changed so drastically that her mind went blank, and no guidelines could have helped her along. The playing up of hormones, sleep problems, the feeling of all-embracing responsibility and other changes brought about by the birth made her gasp at the sheer unpredictability of her state.

On that morning she definitely felt that “life literally and figuratively moved through me,” Morissette shares. She felt as if she was being pressed unmercifully into a new realization of what it means to be a human being –relating both to her child and herself. She said that she had been reborn on the same day to be what she had always wanted to be!

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The Today show has the latest information on the great event in an exclusive interview with Michelle Duggar, who is into her fourth month. She is 45 and she says she hadn’t been expecting to bear another child, but when God obliged, she and Jim Bob Duggar felt “so excited” and “so grateful.”

The Duggar brood couldn’t take the news in at first, thinking that their parents were joking. Her husband chose to announce the news to the kids when they had been arranged on the staircase for taking a picture – he shouted out, “Smile – Mom’s going to have another baby!” Michelle was amused to see how their jaws fell and they swung round to take a look at her and decide whether it was true.

As for her hubby Jim Bob, he claims to be thrilled at his Number 20, for he is sure that all his kids “are so sweet” and they are a blessing bestowed on them by God. Besides, he said they had never meant to have an uneven number of children.

Michelle’s already past her first trimester sick spells; apart from that she is in good health and even believes she is better fit than 20 years ago, especially after a year’s workouts five and more days every week! Her food craving is dill pickles.

The gender of the baby will be known by Christmastime.

Their youngest girl, Josie, to turn two in December, proved a trial to the family at the time due to her gall-bladder problems and preeclampsia that caused premature delivery by more than three months. Thus Josie was saved and now enjoys excellent health.

From Josie the youngest, the Duggars’ children to the oldest, 23-year-old Joshua: Jordyn-Grace, Jennifer, Jana, Johannah, Jackson, Justin, James, Jason, Jeremiah, Jedidiah, Joy-Anna, Josiah, Joseph, Jinger, Jessa, Jill, John-David.

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Her midsection has clearly become the center of her attention as Middleton was first spotted giving up on peanut paste, that famous no-no food for pregnant women, and then photos of her nursing her stomach appeared.

This week, while visiting a UNICEF distribution center in Copenhagen, Denmark, the royal wife was constantly touching and stroking herself around her waistline over the chic red coat she had on. The movements seemed so compulsive that it attracted other people’s attention.

As the UK Daily Mail reports from the words of a UNISEF event visitor, the 29-year-old’s hands kept returning to her stomach in gestures that the source called “very noticeable” and “very odd.” They looked uncontrollable, and the visitor noticed her cradling herself where the baby bump grows with both hands at once at a time.

William and Kate never denied they are planning to have kids. True, in his interview last November the Prince said they would be moving “one step in the time” and let the marriage state sink in first before proceeding to the children stage, but maybe the plans have changed?

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It was Kelly Rowland, the expectant mother’s former Destiny’s Child bandmate, who inadvertently let the pronoun “she” slip out on Thursday as she was discussing the subject of the baby with Us Weekly at the Cosmopolitan Awards in London.

Touching on the question on her gift for the newborn, Rowland, 30, disclosed that the baby is a girl when she said that “her” dad, Jay-Z, would surely cater for the child fully, so all she would be able to give her is love.

True, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, multimillionaires, are already arranging for the construction of a 2,200 square-foot nursery at their home in New York (as is reported).

Nevertheless Rowland is sure the child won’t be spoiled – on the contrary, the parents will take good care to bring up a “very well behaved” girl.

The Motivation singer shared that she was receiving regular updates from her childhood friend and she would be eager to babysit for her, the more so since she had already gotten proper training with Solange Knowles, Beyoncé’s younger sister. She had had her deal with her son Julez’s soiled diapers, so Rowland professes to be an expert with diapers!

There was also an earlier indication of the baby’s sex when Us heard from a source that Beyoncé had been interested in Louboutin baby booties of the pink color.

Her child is expected to arrive in February.

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The experts from Hebrew University in Jerusalem found that the brain changes, particularly associated with the perception of smells and sounds, help mothers to communicate with their babies, and especially to recognize the incoming signals from kids when they are asking for help.

Dr. Adi Mizrahi and his colleagues conducted tests on mice. For instance, they have investigated whether the primary auditory cortex of adult mice – a part of brain that is involved in the analysis of sounds – can serve for processing responses to the smell of young mice and their voice.

In the course of the research, the scientists have discovered that simple mice and mother mice reacted to the smell of mousekins differently. In particular, mothers demonstrated the connection between the processing of olfactory and auditory information. As the scientists have discovered, the mice did not have this quality, but rather acquired it after the birth of baby mice.

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Combo crib and change station

Some manufacturers make baby changing stations that are an exact match to a crib they sell. They are made of the same wood as the crib and are stained the same color. These stations can be set right beside the crib since both pieces of furniture seem to appear as one when put together. The changing table is pretty much as tall as the crib, which makes things a lot easier when your baby is crying in the middle of the night and you need to make a quick change before the feeding starts.

Changing stations with cabinets

If you want to keep your baby essentials hidden from view you can opt for one of these types of stations that have drawers instead of shelves. While these stations may be more aesthetically pleasing, the drawback is you may have to be fumbling with drawers while your infant is fussing for a change.

Baby changing tables can be made from a lot of different materials like wood, metal or polyethylene. It is a personal choice which one you choose based on the look of the nursery and price you can afford.

Safety factors

When you’re looking for a baby station make sure that you find one with a security strap to tie around the baby during the diaper change. Although the changing area may look secure and it may seem that there is really no need to tie up the baby, it’s amazing how fast an accident can happen. Babies seemed to wiggle and jiggle in all sorts of fascinating ways and all it takes is one wrong move and the baby can end up on the floor.

When it comes to safety for babies, you can never make a wrong call by choosing the safest option available.

Many parents won’t even completely trust this strap and tend to hold one hand over the baby while reaching for supplies underneath. For these cautious parents, stations with shelves instead of drawers are a better option. It is much easier to grab a diaper, baby wipes and a towel from a shelf with one hand than it is to have to maneuver to open a drawer and pull out all of these accessories.

Most parents don’t put a lot of thought into baby changing stations and just include it as an add-on when purchasing baby furniture. It is a good idea, however, to put some serious thought into it ahead of time since it is going to be one of the most used pieces of furniture in the nursery and in your whole home once the baby arrives!

At his 51 he became a first-time dad, as Us Weekly heard from an inside source. Grant’s baby, a girl, was born early last month, the information that was later confirmed by the British actor’s rep.

The rep added that it was an unexpected turn of events since the girl is a love-child of “a fleeting affair,” and after all the actor “could not be happier or more supportive.” He maintains a friendly relationship with the mother and they have settled everything between them. It hasn’t been given out exactly who the mother is.

Vogue reported that Grant was ready to become a father back in 2007, citing Warren Beatty and saying that a baby to take care of and delight in was the best thing that could happen to him, much as he adored himself.

The Brit was known to have been dating Elizabeth Hurley for 13 years until 2000 when they broke up quietly. At the time he talked to Vogue he was dating writer Jemima Kahn, and in April this year he had a liaison with Chinese actress Tinglan Hong.

Us’s source tells that Grant is “beaming about his daughter” and is ready to take care of her though he is not living with the child’s mother.

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Previously, the scientists have been making statements that during the period of strong stress and crises boys are less likely to be born. For instance, this tendency was observed in America immediately after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Then the number of boys born in New York City reduced considerably. The same was observed in Germany in 1991, when the former GDR stepped into the period of economic decline and political chaos. Then there was a significant decline in the number of newborn boys.

The recent study not only states the fact, but explains it as well. The reason turns out to be in the increased level of the so-called stress hormone in pregnant women, cortisol in particular. The women, who had had a higher level of cortisol before pregnancy, more often gave birth to girls. High cortisol levels must in any way impede the implantation of male embryos in the uterus. But, of course, the process of determining the sex of the expected child is controled by the chromosome set in sperm, and this fact is never going to be disputed by scientists. In addition, male embryos are more prone to miscarriages, when cortisol levels are high.

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