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By Rebecca Dube
Is Beyonce faking it? Her bump, that is, not her pregnancy. A gossip website is claiming that the singer, who announced her pregnancy at the MTV Viceo Music Awards recently, wore a "prosthetic belly" in order to make her announcement more "dramatic." Puh-leeze. Just because she was photographed with her belly looking flat a week or two earlier doesn't prove anything. Isn't one of the best part of announcing your pregnancy the fact that you get to exhale and let that gut -- excuse me, "baby bump" -- hang out with pride? While we're intrigued by the notion of a prosthetic belly, this claim seems pretty suspect.
Meanwhile, fellow expecting mom Carla Bruni, wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, says she'll never let the media photograph her child. "I will do everything to protect this infant and I'll be absolutely rigorous. I will never show photos of this child, I will never expose this child," she told a TV interviewer. After today, maybe Beyonce will consider following suit.
And will Beyonce and Carla be giving their little ones "hipster" names? Babble has identified the top 20 hipster baby names. If your child's name is on the list, be on the lookout for other early warning signs of hipsterdom: weird sideburns, skinny jeans, will only listen to bootleg Schoolhouse Rock albums from the '70s. Top hipster names for boys, according to Babble: Brooklyn, Ray, Holden, Iver, Allen, Lennon, Orson, Atticus, Thelonious, Jasper. And for girls: London, Wren, Matilda, Tallulah, Margot, Clementine, Zooey, Seraphina, Florence, Alice.
How long do you wait before panicking about a missing kid? In one town the answer is two whole hours -- and the kid was 11 years old. Lenore Skenazy reports on her blog, Free-Range Kids, that one ready got an automated phone call from police alerting her to the fact that an 11-year-old boy had been missing for two hours. It was 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Five minutes later, she got another auto-call: He had been located. Safety overkill, or better safe than sorry?
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