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Shock delivery: Bec Hewitt has her baby six weeks early!

Jonica Bray
Monday, October 25, 2010
Shock delivery: Bec Hewitt has her baby six weeks early!

The baby’s surprise entrance into the world creates drama.

Tennis star Lleyton Hewitt and his gorgeous wife Bec have welcomed into the world their third child – who arrived early last week.

The delighted couple were celebrating the birth of the bub – a girl named Ava Sydney Hewitt – at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital.

But the little one’s arrival was not without drama. Bec was rushed from her Dural home to hospital, well before the December due date she spoke of back in May. Arriving with her parents, Darrel and Michele, in the back seat of their car, Bec was taken by wheelchair straight to the hospital’s birthing suite. “They moved her inside pretty quickly,” says a hospital visitor.

Shortly after, Bec’s sister Kristy arrived with her two children, before Lleyton dashed to the airport to collect his parents, Glynn and Cherilyn, who live in Adelaide.

“As soon as they heard the news they flew straight to Sydney,” says a family friend. “They were determined not to miss a thing.” Just a few hours later, the baby arrived, leaving all four grandparents relieved and beaming with pride. Bec and Lleyton had always wanted a third child, but they didn’t expect their wish to come true so soon. “We were thinking we’d wait until Lleyton retires, because travelling with two is plenty,” Bec told OK magazine. “It’s a happy surprise though.”

Bec and Lleyton charging fans $2 text to find out baby's name

Related video: Bec Hewitt.

Read more in this week's Woman's Day,
on sale October 25 2010, including:

- Where the Hewitts are planning to settle down.
- What the birth of the couples third child means for Lleyton's career..and more!
Woman's Day Baby Special
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6 weeks early... i'm sorry but any child born from 36 weeks is considered full term so really the child is only 2 weeks early
congrats guys on the arrival of baby ava. i know what yous are going through as my fiancee and i have a baby girl named tanisha who is now 14 months but she was born 6 weeks premi. It can be over welming having a baby in special care but take the time to just sit with ava and take some deep breaths and dont be afraid to ask questions. My little girl is now 14 months and going strong you would not even know she was premi. good luck to all of yous and hope to see pics soon xx
What a joke! Charging people to find out the baby's name! Who do they think they are? Royalty? Why the secret? They had better donate the money!Disgraceful!!!
Our daughter was born 3 and a half months early. She is a real miracle. She is now home and is perfect! 6 weeks early is no close call. The survival success rate of a 34 week gestation baby is almost 100%
Thanks for shareing your family with the rest of the world now that you will be paid $ for all us reading your business how about donating some of that money to the hospital maternity Beck you could,nt have done it without them. midwife , nurses , well done.
If the people dont care about Bec & Lleyton that much, then stop reading about them.
What is the big deal with these two. So what she had her baby early. So many parents everyday have far more problems having there babies, and they don't make the headlines. Sure it is frightening, but really she had the best of care and was able to have her baby in the hospital. My friends baby arrived early in the car. Why do these two make the headlines, they have the best of everything, the best money can buy. And to top it off they make thousands selling there story.
Perhaps they can donate their money they're earning for nothing to a worthy cause like NICU
Hope all goes well for you guys as you go through the NICU journey and that it's an uneventful one.. Any one who has had prem would realize celebrity or not they are still going to go through the same ordeal as "normal" people dp
My brother was born 3 months premi, no one paid for mum & dad's story. Why? Cause it happens all the time! It's no big deal, unless your broke & need the money.

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