Congratulations to Julia Roberts!!

Well I believe the People magazine post that she is pregnant because they are a slightly more reputable source. As for the sex of the twins, coming from Star, I DOUBT that it is true. Plus, the sex organs don't develop until the second trimester, so unless she is further along than they are letting on it seems kind of impossible that they would know the sex already.

I also completely agree with the name thing, chose something other than Apple. :)

Hopefully she won't name her child or children after any fruits or vegetables.

You can tell the instant the sperm meets the egg which sex it's going to be, hence the big brou ha ha about selective IVF and people chosing the sex of their children. I highly doubt they would know the sex either right now (or at least be reporting it), but there are ways to tell this early on in a pregnancy.

And I still can't believe they're telling everyone at 9 weeks. There are too many things that could happen this early on, especially with twins. Hell, when I get pg, Mr. ISUKappa and I are definitely not alerting the national media until well after 12 weeks! ;)

Yeah, it is really, really early to be telling people. I am sure she didn't mean to tell though... probably the word just got out, thanks to the a-hole paparazzi types and they just felt like they had to confirm it.

Anyway, hopefully all goes well. I can't imagine what it would be like to have to suffer through a miscarriage with America watching.

An amnio can't be done until ~16-18 weeks (and then takes at least a week for the cultures to grow enough to do a chromosome count) . CVS (chorionic villi sampling) is done at ~8 weeks and is a much more rapid form of testing (but I'm not sure it's that instantaneous). On the other hand, she has enough $$$ to do the most exotic forms of reproductive technology so if they're releasing that it's boy/girl, then it's likely that she had selective IVF and knew the sex of the zygotes being implanted... and if both "took", voila, one of each... unless, of course, one of the implanted eggs didn't implant and she really has identical twins (there's a higher risk of an IVF egg splitting into twins-- in the NICU, we call it the revenge of Mother Nature). Can't tell that this soon what she really has unless she's further along than she's reporting....

True, but most people, who don't have Julia Roberts kind of money, have to wait until the sex organs are formed before they can discover the sex of their child which doesn't occur until the 2nd trimester, that was my point.

I'm pretty sure I heard on Entertainment Tonight (as I was walking to the other room) that a picture was snapped of her on the beach and I guess she was already starting to show, so rather than having the rumors begin and they confirm them after a few weeks, they decided to confirm them right away.

I may be wrong, though.... :cool:

there's also been rumors and reports swirling for quite some time now that they were trying to get pregnant and that she was already pregnant. that could have been a deciding factor and confiming the pregnancy as well.

And all my point was that there are ways to tell the sex this early on in a pregnancy. Not whether people do them or can afford them but that they exist. :)

Our local pop radio station has a segment twice a morning where they dish all the hollywood gossip and they were talking about Julia Roberts' pregnancy this morning. I could have sworn they said something about IVF but I was also half asleep at the time and I have a habit of turning what I hear on the radio into what I'm dreaming.

I've heard those same reports about her wanting/trying to get pregnant. So it is probably prudent they come out and verify the rumors now. You start to show pretty early when you're carrying twins.

It's a Girl, and a Boy, for Julia Roberts

http://breakingnews.nypost.com/dynam...=ENTERTAINMENT

OK, Hazel Patricia and Phinnaeus Walter just sucks! Those poor kids... APPLE IS A BETTER NAME! I know Walter and Patricia are Julia's deceased parents' names. But, their whole names just sound like some 90 year-old married couple.

Yuck, Julia. I expected classier/better (IMO) names!

Wash't Phinnaeus the full name of a character from the novel "A Separate Peace"?

Ok I know she doesn't want them to have matching names and stuff but PHINNAEUS?!? I hope she plans on homeschooing that boy. :(

Putting her names of choice aside, I'm glad to finally read about good things happening to good people.

With her success in Hollywood people have tried for years to find something wrong with that woman, but you know what? She's one of those you can't help but respect because she's a good person and a sweetheart.

Congratulations to Julia and Danny. Welcome to the world, twins!

I rather like Phinnaeus, actually :) I suppose he could go by "Fin", which sounds pretty cool.