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		<title>Elizabeth Banks Welcomes Son Magnus Mitchell!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 21:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Mulpeter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pitch Perfect and Hunger Games actress welcomed baby #2, son Magnus Mitchell via gestational surrogate with husband Max Handelman! Elizabeth announced the news on her website today: &#8220;As 2012 winds down and Thanksgiving approaches, I have much for which to be thankful &#8211; personal, professional, and Presidential. However, nothing can match the joy and excitement...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.thebump.com&#038;blog=33418031&#038;post=8689&#038;subd=xothebump&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center"><img src="http://xothebump.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/elizabethbankspremiereuniversalpicturesapoftswiw_nl.jpg?w=650" /></p><p>The <em>Pitch Perfect</em> and <a title="Hunger Games" href="http://blog.thebump.com/2012/03/21/the-hunger-games-inspired-baby-names/"><em>Hunger Games</em></a> actress welcomed baby #2, son Magnus Mitchell via gestational surrogate with husband Max Handelman!</p>
<p>Elizabeth announced the news <a title="on her website" rel="nofollow" href="http://elizabethbanks.com/blog/post/elizabeth-banks-new-baby-boy-magnus">on her website</a> today:</p>
<p>&#8220;As 2012 winds down and Thanksgiving approaches, I have much for which to be thankful &#8211; personal, professional, and Presidential. However, nothing can match the joy and excitement my husband and I felt when we recently welcomed our second baby boy, Magnus Mitchell Handelman.</p>
<p>This experience has exceeded all expectations, taught us a great deal about generosity and gratitude, and established a relationship that will last a lifetime. . . . I now turn my attention to managing two boys under two. For which I am thankful. And all their poop. For which I am less thankful. Wish me luck.&#8221;</p>
<p>Magnus joins <a title="older brother Felix" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/surprise-30-rocks-elizabeth-banks-is-a-mom-19693112">older brother Felix</a>, who was born in March 2011, also via gestational surrogate. Elizabeth and Max have been married since 2003.</p>
<p>Congrats to the happy couple!</p>
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		<title>&#8220;What to Expect&#8221; Movie Has Just Enough Pregnancy Angst</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elena Donovan Mauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got to catch a pre-release screening of the What to Expect When You&#8217;re Expecting movie last night, and I have to say, if you&#8217;re here on The Bump (which you obviously are), you&#8217;ll want to catch this flick. Like so many rom coms before it (Love Actually, He&#8217;s Just Not That Into You and...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.thebump.com&#038;blog=33418031&#038;post=1614&#038;subd=xothebump&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center"><img src="http://xothebump.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/what-to-expect-posters.jpg?w=650" /></p><p>I got to catch a pre-release screening of the <em>What to Expect When You&#8217;re Expecting</em> movie last night, and I have to say, if you&#8217;re here on <a href="http://www.thebump.com/">The Bump</a> (which you obviously are), you&#8217;ll want to catch this flick.</p>
<p>Like so many rom coms before it (<em>Love Actually</em>, <em>He&#8217;s Just Not That Into You </em>and the like), <em>What to Expect</em> follows several couples played by a bevy of stars &#8212; Jennifer Lopez, Cameron Diaz, Elizabeth Banks, Chace Crawford, Brooklyn Decker and more &#8212; whose lives are somehow loosely intertwined. They&#8217;re all going through <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy.aspx">pregnancy</a> or <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/getting-pregnant/adoption.aspx">adoption</a> and we get to see how it all plays out.</p>
<p>Sure, the movie is oftentimes predictable and feeds into a few stereotypes and myths, but it has the right balance of touching and hilarious. And it touches on a lot of topics we discuss here on The Bump every day, like <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-symptoms.aspx">pregnancy symptoms</a>, <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/sex-and-relationships.aspx">relationship issues</a>, <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/child-labor-delivery/articles/the-truth-about-c-section-delivery-and-recovery.aspx">c-sections</a> and <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-tools/articles/tool-birth-plan.aspx">birth plans</a>. Even tough stuff like <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/getting-pregnant/fertility-problems.aspx">infertility</a>, <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/miscarriage-and-loss.aspx">miscarriage</a> and deciding whether or not to <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/third-trimester/qa/should-we-circumcise-the-baby.aspx">circumcise</a>. There are a few &#8220;surprise&#8221; pregnancies, one that was years in the making and one adoption. And of course, everyone has their own drama and issues to resolve before the baby arrives.</p>
<p>Watch out for really funny performances from Dennis Quaid, who plays an egotistical, aging new dad; Chris Rock, the head of the &#8220;dudes group&#8221; (the dad &#8220;fight club,&#8221; minus the fighting and plus sippy cups); and Rebel Wilson, who plays a store assistant who&#8217;s wonderfully weird and outrageous.</p>
<p>My favorite by far character is Wendy, played by Elizabeth Banks, who tries for two years to get pregnant and when she does, ends up having a pretty tough time of it. She has a really great speech, where she&#8217;s supposed to be talking about the joy of pregnancy and birth and instead says, &#8220;I&#8217;m calling bull$#!% on the whole thing. Pregnancy sucks&#8230; I didn&#8217;t get the glow. I just got the <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-problems/articles/acne-during-pregnancy.aspx">backne</a> and the <a href="http://pregnant.thebump.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-problems/articles/hemorrhoids-during-pregnancy.aspx">hemorrhoids</a>.&#8221; Of course, in the end (don&#8217;t worry, no spoiler here), she&#8217;s still really happy she did it. There&#8217;s nothing more Bumpie than that.</p>
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