Celine Dion Lost a Third Baby While Pregnant With Newborn Sons
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While Celine Dion celebrates last Saturday's birth of healthy twin boys Eddy and Nelson, the singer recently revealed a heartbreaking loss during the pregnancy.
During an extended Quebec TV interview taped 10 days before she gave birth, Dion confessed that she was originally carrying triplets, not twins.
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Dion, 42, explained in the special (which aired on Thursday) that the heart of the third fetus stopped beating soon after she learned she was expecting.
"He chose to let go to give space to his brothers to grow," Dion said of the unborn child. A rep for Dion confirmed this to E! News.
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Dion and Angelil, 68, have been frank about their struggles to conceive. Eddy and Nelson were successfully conceived following 5 failed IVF attempts.
Angelil told Canadian TV show "we were crying" when the first twin was born last Saturday. "We were both thinking about the time it took. We are very lucky, very privileged and very fortunate to have these boys."
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The little boys join big brother Rene-Charles, 9.
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16Brandi Glanville is the crazy one in this whole fiasco. She should be placing blame on Eddie not on Leanne. Yes, they were both married but Eddie was obviously not happy and chose to step out on Brandi. Everyone has choices, and there are consequences. Obviously Eddie and Leanne are very happy now with the choice that they made.
Michelle Clark: You are absolutely right ... and that still doesn't mean that "we're" wrong.
you all are ridiculaous. you act like you know her and her husband becuase of an article that you read somewhere. Get over your selves!! You are all being very insensitive to people who struggle to concieve a child. So judgmental. She has 2 little boys. Congratulations to her and her family.
To Jessica Klym Norgaard: I suggest you refrain from making statements about my ability to, or my past experience with conceiving a child. You might feel rather foolish, if you were to know the truth. You might also want to think about what exactly it means to proceed with the IVF treatment. Let me ask you, at exactly what does a human life begin? A strong pro-life argument is that human life begins at conception, when sperm meets egg. Did you know that is what IVF is? The radical pro-life individual might argue that someone who has had five failed IVF treatments, plus one lost in the womb is as guilty of taking a human life as someone who has had an abortion, or fatally shot another human being. There is some logic to that argument, otherwise experiencing a miscarriage wouldn't be painful at all. I admit, my suggesting she has an album coming out was immature. But I can't take it back. However, I still question her intentions. She made the choice to reveal such deep and personal information, including when she went public about her latest miscarriage. I would like to know what purpose it served to be photographed for the cover of magazines looking all perfect and beautiful, when you're in that much pain. Regardless, I find it ironic to support the IVF procedure, even though it will never be able to guarantee that every embryo injected into a uterus will result in a baby, while acknowledging the pain that results when a woman miscarries.
no she has a regular studio album coming out plus her return to vegas totally different
to Jessica Ann Mara Yanosik.... you obviously have never had trouble concieving and dont know what its like to want to have a baby of your own. I agree whole heartidly with adoption but having your OWN babies is worth every round of IVF.
I agree she should have never shared this with us. Its way to personal and she should focus instead on the two babies that did survive.
To Elsa Caceres ... Did you not read the article? Dion made the choice to blab this to a gossip magazine, there is even a direct quote and the whole thing has, apparently, been validated by a rep. Don't kidd yourself, she knows EXACTLY what she is doing by sharing such information. She's pulling a "boo hoo, poor me," ten bucks says that she has a holiday album coming out.
this is personal,....we do not need to know
i'm so sorry for the lose of the third baby Que Dieu le protege et repose son ame en paix; we lov u celine
I just read Phyills Newman's post: Omg, cannot believe that selfish pig. I would be telling him to get to work on making his own babies then. Losing a child is heartbreaking, just to clarify. The problem I have is with the IVF procedure itself, because it makes people think they can still push babies out of their va-jay-jays, even if their uterus is telling them otherwise. There are so many beautiful children in this world who deserve safe, happy families too. The fact Dion's husband has claimed production rights to her uterus, despite the effect on her, is disgusting. What freakin' century does he think he's living in? And, what's worse is that Dion felt it necessary to go along with it, probably because he held hostage her chance at bring more children into her/their family. What a pig.
Sorry, but that's what you get when you artificially inject multiple embryos into your barren uterus. There is a risk, she would have sign the dotted light telling her that. Just because she has money, she is not god. The rule is take the half the total number of nipples of the mother, and you get the number of young they will produce on average, IVF doesn't change that. Unless she's hiding an unnatural number of nipples, then even her royal highness should only be having one baby at a time. Hopefully she'll put a cork in things once and for all, so the world can stop hearing about the tragedies she's bringing on herself. Are they really so high and mighty that they cannot jump on the adoption-train, like every other self-respecting celebrity?
Cannot stand this egomaniacal couple. Don't understand the fascination.
That's sad to hear. What's equally sad is that she lost several babies in this process because, even though she was willing to adopt, her elderly husband insisted on having children of his own. I read their interview in People several months ago and was shocked he would put her through all that to feed his selfishness and incredible ego, especially when there are so many children out there who need a family.
I feel bad for them as well but it's not unheard of when your pregnant with multiples to lose one early in pregnancy and still have the others healthy
So happy for her and her family. But I also feel very sad for them to lose another baby while pregnant.