Los
Angeles
(Reuters):
The
African-born
daughter
of
Hollywood
couple
Angelina
Jolie
and
Brad
Pitt
was
delivered
by
Caesarean
section
in
a
weekend
surgery
and
birth
that
''went
flawlessly,''
Jolie's
doctor
said.
Details
of
the
birth,
which
occurred
on
Saturday
at
the
Cottage
Medi-Clinic
Hospital
in
the
Namibian
town
of
Swakopmund,
were
disclosed
in
a
statement
the
couple
furnished
exclusively
to
People
magazine.
Pitt's
publicist,
Cindy
Guagenti,
later
confirmed
the
magazine's
report.
The
infant,
named
Shiloh
Nouvel
Jolie-Pitt,
weighed
7
pounds
(3.18
kg)
at
birth
and
was
described
as
healthy,
though
a
surgical
delivery
was
necessary
because
the
baby
was
in
a
potentially
risky
feet-first
breech
position
in
the
womb.
''Angelina
underwent
a
scheduled
Caesarean
due
to
breech
presentation,''
said
Dr
Jason
Rothbart,
the
couple's
Los
Angeles-based
obstetrician,
who
oversaw
the
delivery.
''Brad
was
with
Angelina
in
the
operating
room
the
entire
time
and
cut
the
umbilical
cord
of
his
daughter.
The
surgery
and
birth
went
flawlessly,''
he
said.
Rothbart
added
that
the
doctors,
nurses
and
other
staff
who
assisted
him
were
''amazing,''
and
he
called
the
delivery
''a
team
effort.''
''We
would
like
to
deeply
thank
the
staff
of
the
Cottage
Medi-Clinic
Hospital
for
all
their
kindness
and
commitment
in
assuring
the
successful
birth
of
our
daughter,''
Jolie,
30,
and
Pitt,
42,
said
in
a
joint
statement.
The
infant
Shiloh
joins
their
two
adopted
children,
Cambodian-born
son
Maddox,
4,
and
daughter,
Zahara,
an
Ethiopian
native
who
is
about
15
months
old,
in
a
blended
celebrity
clan
recently
labeled
''the
World's
Most
Beautiful
Family''
by
People
magazine.
So
far,
no
pictures
of
the
family's
latest
addition
have
emerged.
Photographers
from
all
over
the
world
have
flocked
to
the
southern
African
nation
in
hopes
of
capturing
the
first
images
of
the
newborn
which
are
expected
to
be
worth
millions
of
dollars.
Jolie,
who
won
an
Oscar
for
her
role
in
the
1999
movie
''Girl,
Interrupted,''
and
serves
as
a
goodwill
ambassador
for
U.N.
High
Commissioner
for
Refugees,
took
a
shine
to
Namibia
during
production
on
the
2003
film
''Beyond
Borders.''
Jolie
and
Pitt
became
acquainted
in
2004
while
working
together
on
the
film
''Mr.
and
Mrs.
Smith,''
a
dark
comedy
in
which
they
co-starred
as
a
couple
of
assassins
whose
marriage
gets
rocky
when
they're
assigned
to
kill
each
other.
Rumors
of
an
affair
between
the
twice-divorced
Jolie
and
Pitt
heated
up
after
the
actor
and
his
ex-wife,
former
Friends
star
Jennifer
Aniston,
split
up
in
January
2005.
While
their
relationship
quickly
became
one
of
Hollywood's
most
talked-about
open
secrets,
Pitt
and
Jolie
only
confirmed
their
romance
about
five
months
ago,
when
they
announced
she
was
pregnant
with
his
child.