It’s all about the Brangelina twins today, and since Angelina reportedly wants to shed that moniker I’ve decided to use it as much as possible. It’s a lot easier than calling them Knox and Vivienne, which sounds suspiciously similar to the names J.Lo chose for her fraternal boy and girl twins, Max and Emme.

There are new details emerging about the birth of the twins that seems like way too much information. People are clamoring for details and Brad and Angelina have only so much control over what leaks out, but I think that birth room scenes are privileged information despite all the “Baby Story” episodes I watched on TLC when I was pregnant.

People Magazine has a whole section of their website dedicated to the birth of the twins with a big red banner across the top in all-caps italics that reads “ANGELINA & BRAD’S TWINS ARE BORN!” and it’s really too much. They had the babies, we’ll get to see them soon, good for them.

Brad “Very Emotional” at Birth, Angelina was talking and laughing during C-section
Angelina’s doctor revealed in his statement that Brad was “very emotional” when the babies were born. What dad isn’t, even for the fifth and sixth child? Dr. Sussman gave a lot of information to the press and I’m not sure I would want all those details made public if it was my family even though it’s all perfectly normal stuff.

During the labor and delivery, the couple “were talking, they were together,” Dr. Michel Sussmann told reporters outside Fondation Lenval Hospital in Nice, France, where twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon were born on Saturday. “It was an epidural, so [Angelina] was awake and speaking and laughing. They were happy.”

Pitt never left Jolie’s side – “he was my assistant!” Sussmann said jokingly – and even cut the babies’ umbilical cords.

“He was … perfectly calm, totally determined, very pleased to be at the birth of his children, very moved and very emotional,” said Sussmann.

Asked whether the birth had been a textbook delivery, Sussmann replied, “absolutely no problems.”

[From People.com]

Dr. Sussmann said Angelina will stay in the hospital for a few more days, which is how they do it in Europe and that “it isn’t like in the United States, where the patients go home after three days. ” He later clarified that the babies are in good health at 5 pounds each, but that they need to gain some more weight before they go home and are likely to stay in the hospital for about a week.

Dr. Sussmann also told the press that Angelina’s c-section was moved up ten days “for the mother’s comfort.”

The Associated Press reports that Brad Pitt chose to give the French daily newspaper the Nice-Matin the scoop on the birth because he wanted a local paper to have the story before the other outlets.

The mayor of Nice held a press conference and gushed in his praise for Angelina and Brad. He said it was a great honor that such big stars had chosen his city to give birth. He stood on the steps of the hospital while holding Knox’s birth certificate and said:

“On behalf of the inhabitants of Nice, I congratulate the happy parents, the most famous couple of the world who have chosen our city for this happy event.”

He also called the birth “a pride to Nice and all its citizens.” [Details From People.com]

It’s all a bit over the top, but congratulations to Brad and Angelina and it is kind of amazing that they had twins to add to their brood of four other children – whether they had IVF or not. And let’s wish them well for their babies no matter how you feel about them personally. They’re certainly willing to be open with the press and there are millions of people who want to read every little tidbit about them. Maybe they think if they open up all the doors and unlock everything people will get bored and go home. It’s pretty damn comfortable and perfect-looking in their house, though.