Celine Dion Gives Birth to Twin Boys

By Christine Fenno Posted Oct 24th 2010 08:14AM

Celine Dion and husband Rene Angelil are doubly joyful this weekend, welcoming fraternal twin boys who were delivered via C-section on Saturday morning in West Palm Beach, Fla., joining big brother Rene-Charles, age 9.

The babies have not yet been named, according to People.com. "Celine is resting now and they plan to discuss what to name the boys when she wakes up," her spokesperson says. "René-Charles has been to the hospital to visit his brothers, and is just so excited they are here."

Dion's new sons were born at 5 lbs., 10 oz., and 5 lbs., 4 oz., and are premature but healthy. They will reportedly spend a few days in neonatal intensive care, a common procedure for newborn twins, who often arrive before their due date.

At a press conference outside St. Mary's Medical Center, Dion's longtime obstetrician talked about the successful delivery -- and what the babies look like.

Dr. Ronald Ackerman (whose son, Dr. Joshua Ackerman also assisted in the delivery) explained that the surgery to deliver the babies went as expected -- with the first boy born at 11:11 a.m. and the second born at 11:12 a.m. -- and said that both twins were born with a "good amount" of hair.

The Canadian chanteuse, 42, has been open in recent years about her struggle to conceive. She revealed in May that she was pregnant, after undergoing a sixth attempt at in-vitro fertilization.

In February, the singer opened up to Oprah about her miscarriage of an earlier pregnancy.

Dion announced she was pregnant in August of 2009 using an embryo frozen eight years before, in 2001, when she and husband Rene had their first son. Sadly, she suffered a miscarriage shortly after.

"It's life. You know? A lot of people go through this, but it's not being told because it's not in newspaper. But with us, as you know, it's like, sometimes news are like mercury," she told Winfrey.

Dion says she didn't come out right away with the miscarriage news because the initial reports of her pregnancy were still fresh, and she didn't want to make such an announcement so fast.

"They said that I was pregnant, and a couple of days after, we were not pregnant again. We didn't want to feel like we were playing yo-yo. 'I'm pregnant. I'm not pregnant. I'm pregnant. I'm not pregnant.' So we didn't want to do this thing. But we did have a miscarriage," she said.

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Monday 25 October

By Wayne

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I'm glad the babies are healthy. I love her music.

Tuesday 26 October

By Vicki Olson

42 is too damn old to be getting pregnant on purpose. She and her husband will be dead before the kids graduate from high school.

By KENNY NASH

She is a great lady! I wish her 10 more!

Kenny Nash

youtube KENNY NASH "DESIRE"

By ssnooks09

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Who the hell cares about Celine Dion, and what the hell is a dotage???

By Mary

Obviously you care enough to read the story and reply to it.

By S.Cooper

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Congrats to you and your family. What a double joy for you all!!!

By Eileen

DON'T WASTE TIME WITH NEGATIVE PEOPLE CONGRATS ON YOUR TWIN BOYS GREAT TO SEE THAT EVERYONE IS FINE

By KewTpie

To Renee and Celine...."félicitations" its so wonderful to hear such Happy, Happy News .... God bless those precious Gifts that you both concieved out of "True Love" for each other ....

By Ana Sariego

Congratulations to both of them, Mom & Pop I mean.
You can feel the huge love they both have for each other~
Those two boys will be blessed and loved to the Max!
They work hard, and deserve the best!

By CONNIE Schaap

Congratulations Celion. enjoy the twins and your older son. Life is too short to not enjoy every minute raising them and watching them grow.

By ev

YEAH!!!!! I'm so happy for them, and 5 lbs. apiece is great for twins! They'll stay a few weeks gain a lb. or 2 then off to the hacienda!!

By gail

congrats celine and rene.

Thursday 28 October

By Evelyn

Congrats. God Bless Yours Beautiful Family,,,,and TWINS,,,,fantastic......Just show them love, love and more love...

By Jasmine

I'm so happy for celine dion congrats to her & rene. I know she probably was hoping for a girl but with all the bad luck shes been having I'm sure shes extremely grateful that she has 3 healthy children and I'm so glad too she deserves this!!!! God blessed her with double the fun.

By sunny

I hope those poor babies don't inherit her screechy nails-on-a-blackboard voice.

By Anna

Who cares what religion they are? Yes, they are Catholic, but what's the problem if they were Muslim? A baby is a baby. Congratulations to the whole family, including big brother.

By katernc

Having had 25 years experience in labor & delivery, and 16 years of that in high-risk L&D, I can understand some of what they are going through with their pregnancies & decisions. I think it's very sad that people want children so badly that they would "Do anything" when there are so many out there who desperately need homes. But again, this is theirs. I wish them luck.

By Dale & Patricia Myers

Wonderful news about Celine and her husband. The twins will be a part of a loving, caring family. God Bless.

By BB

I see one thing very clear here and its idiotic jealousy. plane and simple. cant get close to having their joy with your nasty self so U just vomit words to make you feel better about your self. what a pity. you need to get on your knees and talk to your maker about your problem with your lack of self worth.

Wednesday 27 October

By cathyreed

My father was 52 when I was born, my mother died when I was 4, her age was 44 when she died. My father remarried a year later to a woman his own age. My father and step mother were great parents. They were at all of my school events. Many summer evenings my father was at the tennis courts out playing me and my teenage friends. I regrete that I lost my father when I was 23 years old, my step mother lived until I was 41. Older parents can be great parents.

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