Céline Dion names twin sons
(A very pregnant Dion and family are pictured right on the September 2 cover of the French magazine 7 Jours. Click to enlarge.)
Since we’ve been following singer Céline Dion’s trials as she attempted to grow her 8-yr-old frozen embryos to maturity in her body, I thought I’d provide closure with great news. From CBS News, October 25:
Celine Dion… gave birth to fraternal twin boys on Saturday [October 23] at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, FL, at 11:11 a.m. and 11:12 a.m….
One baby reportedly weighed 5 pounds, 10 ounces; the other 5 pounds, 4 ounces….
Dion’s doctor, Ronald Ackerman, said that the delivery, done via C-section, went as expected, but that the twins will spend the next few days in an incubator because they were born premature….
The superstar singer became pregnant with the twins after reportedly undergoing several rounds of fertility treatment. She and Angélil are also parents to son René-Charles, 9.
And from People magazine, October 28:
Meet Eddy and Nelson!
It took several days, but Céline Dion and her husband René Angélil have finally named their twin sons.
The name “Eddy” comes from Eddy Marnay, who produced the singer’s first 5 records. “He was like a father to her,” says Dion’s rep. “Eddy is a major influence in both Céline and René’s lives.”
Nelson is named after Nelson Mandela, whom Dion met 2 years ago while kicking off her world tour in South Africa. “René said that in just the few minutes they were able to spend with him, they were impressed by the human being he is,” says the rep.
“Céline and René want their children to be inspired by their names, because they were so inspired by these men,” the rep adds.
Dion, 42, told French magazine Gala that the couple had been “going a little bit crazy trying to decide” on names, citing her mother’s desire for French names and her eldest son, René-Charles, pushing for American monikers….
On Wednesday, the newly expanded family headed home with 3 of Dion’s sisters and her mom to help out.
Recall that Dion, who was raised Catholic, previously said she would not abandon her frozen offspring:
I will go get it, that’s for sure. I told my mother.
“I surely couldn’t live knowing that child is there.”
[HT: Laura Loo]
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
well I”m glad she at least recognizes that these are children and that she did strive to have these children.
However, as a Catholic I’m sad that Celine has strayed so far from her faith. Her entire life is built upon a house of cards.
The teachings of the Catholic church exist because God in his infinite wisdom does know what is best for us.
Being a Catholic infertile of 5 years, whether or not she told her mother she will get her frozen babies isn’t any less admirable then what she did….Frozen babies for 8 years…Can she not even see the child abuse in that? Selfish desires…..When man plays God it is not pretty.
One one hand I’m never 100% FOR artificial ways of conceiving, as there are always natural ways (like NaPro) and also trusting God’s will, because He knows what’s best for you.
On the other – I admire her for not leaving those embryos, but giving them the chance of survival. So many of the embryos are created and then thrown away or used for medical research, that makes me shudder just thinking how hurt God is by this treatment of His little ones…. No matter the circumstances, He still gives a soul to each of them and then has to watch them be thrown away….
If IVF were only fertilizing the amount of eggs that will be implanted (without the extra 10 “just in case”) and then proceeded to give them a chance, I would have to reconsider my views about IVF, but not now.
So it sounds like she make have returned to her Faith. Good for her, if there is ever a good reason to use this frankenstein technology, this is it.
Ricky Nelson and Eddie Haskel. Cool. Leave it to Beaver.
Not a fan. She should change her name to Celine SCREAM-ON.
I don’t know what strikes me as stranger – the fact that people named Celine and Rene named their children Eddy and Nelson, or the fact that show business people named their children Eddy and Nelson and it wasn’t after Nelson Eddy.
As long as people give all created embryos a chance to live, I really don’t have a problem with in-vitro fertilization. It’s when people let them freeze indefinitely or have them destroyed that I have objections to it.
One one hand I’m never 100% FOR artificial ways of conceiving, as there are always natural ways (like NaPro) and also trusting God’s will, because He knows what’s best for you.
I was conceived through articifical insemination and am the biological child of both my parents. They tried to get pregnant for ten years and the natural ways weren’t working. Considering I’m their only child and pretty much the joy of their lives, I kind of doubt God thought it was better for them to never have a child than to have their own genetic offspring through artificial insemination. That movie It’s A Wonderful Life always gets me because my parents would have lived incredibly different lives if I’d never been born. Realizing how easily I could have not existed also helped me to have an incredible respect for human life.
This seems to be a recurring theme, doesn’t it? This may not be the best way to conceive, but… Once it happens, let’s do our best.
Phillymiss,
I love belters! I remember the Entertainment Tonight report on her more than 20 years ago when she was a young teenager who hardly knew a word of English.
i like a few of her songs, but that’s about it.
a news report just came out that she was expecting triplets and lose one. :(
Marauder, I knew something about those names sounded familiar — thank you for clearing it up: Nelson Eddy! His movies were old when I was a kid, but I do know who he was. :)