LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Former "Friends" star Courteney Cox and her husband, actor David Arquette, became parents early Sunday, after years of trying, People magazine reported.
Cox, who turns 40 Tuesday, gave birth to a girl in an unidentified Los Angeles hospital, according to a report on the Web site for People magazine, http://www.people.com.
The magazine said Cox checked into the hospital Saturday, a week before the baby's due date and was in labor through the night. The baby has yet to be named, it said.
Cox and Arquette, 32, have been widely quoted discussing their attempts to carry a baby to term.
Cox has just finished the 10th and final season of NBC's popular sitcom, "Friends." The couple are co-producers of a home decorating show, "Mix It Up."
She has been trying for a very long time. All the pain she went through to try to carry a baby to term. She has been through a lot. This child is very wanted and will be very loved. I think it also depends on the parent, but for me that would be too old. I had my last kid when I was 32. That was old enough for me.
FIfty is way too old. Forty is the cut off age for me thinking it is too old. Get over 40, and you are too old. I think that many women assume that they can put it off because INVITRO is out there, but it has only like a 25% success rate.
Courteney Cox Arquette is already planning baby number two -- just months after giving birth to Coco.
The former "Friends" star, 40, is desperate to give birth to a second child with husband David Arquette and is allegedly in talks with the fertility experts she consulted for her daughter.
A source says, "She's already talked to doctors about getting pregnant again.
They make it out like being 40 means your almost dead. I know what they mean though, with all the trouble she had concieving Coco (she had three miscarriages I think) if she wants another baby it's only going to get harder for her to conceive as time goes by.
Good luck to them. But PLEASE don't let them pick the kids name this time
Coco!
ARQUETTE EXPLAINS REASONS FOR NAMING DAUGHTER COCO
Courteney Cox and David Arquette decided to call their daughter Coco because it would have worked against Jewish tradition to name her after the former "Friends" star.
Cox and Arquette caused a stir when they chose to give their first offspring the unusual name after her June birth, but the actor explains that it was best compromise they could make while respecting each other's family traditions, by using the first two letters of Cox's names -- Co-Co.
He says, "Courteney comes from the south and her mother's name's Courteney Cox and she's Courteney Cox and she wanted to name our kid Courteney Cox, but I'm half Jewish. My mother was Jewish, so it's sort of against the Jewish tradition to (name a child) after somebody who's living."
06-14-2004 04:57 AM
), but her last name is Cox. Coco Cox?? 
