Us Weekly USA × September 08, 2008
It’s a Boy!
Kingston, meet your little brother! Stefani and Rossdale welcome a second son in LA via C-section.
Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale
Born: August 21, 2008 Los Angeles
Weight: 8 1/2 pounds
“You ready to take your baby home?” Gwen Stefani asked her 2-year-old son, Kingston. The singer, in a long black robe and her hair in a ponytail, and her husband Gavin Rossdale were rolling their new baby boy in a bassinet out of the nursery of LA’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center August 24. Kingston seemed more than ready to assume his new role as big brother to Zuma Nesta Rock, who had arrived three days earlier, referring to the newborn as “my baby.”
Planned Parenting
“It’s going to be insane when it comes,” Rossdale told Us in July of his son’s impending arrival. In the early hours of August, 21, the married couple of six years checked into the LA hospital for Zuma’s scheduled cesaerian birth, and Zuma was born at 12:46 P.M. (It may have seemd like déjà vu: Kingston was also delivered at that hospital via C-section.) Family members couldn’t be more ecstatic. After hearing the news, Rossdale’s dad, Douglas, a London doctor, told Us, “It’s fantastic… Everyone is just so happy.” Postsurgery, Rossdale, 40, wearing dark blue scrubs and a huge smile, was seen walking with his wife’s ex-Yamaha marketing executive dad, Dennis Stefani, to the birthing suite. And during her stay, Stefani, 38, was visited by her mom, Patti, and her older brother Eric, 41, a musician. Kingston also couldn’t contain his excitement. When Dad tried taking him home August 21, he cried “I don’t want to sleep!”
Name Game
With their latest name choice, it seems they are continuing to pay homage to music icon Bob Marley. The regaae rocker hailed from Kingston, Jamaica, and his middle name was Nesta. As for the baby’s first name, it may come from the Malibu beach where Rossdale was rumored to have had an epiphany that jump-started his career. The family returned to their Beverly Hills home August 24, where Rossdale plans to make good on the promise he told Us in July: “I’m just trying to be there for my wife.”
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