Chelsea Clinton Gives Birth to Baby Girl

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Chelsea Clinton Gives Birth to Baby Girl Apr 17, 2014 22:48:01 GMT

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For Democrats, this might be the equivalent of a royal baby on the way: Chelsea Clinton announced Thursday that she's pregnant with her first child.

"Marc and I are very excited that we have our first child arriving later this year, and I certainly feel all the better, whether it's a girl or a boy, that she or he will grow up in a world full of so many strong female leaders," Chelsea Clinton said in New York City.

Chelsea Clinton made the announcement while seated next to her mother at an event for the Clinton Foundation initiative known as No Ceilings, which is focused on helping young girls and women succeed. Moderator America Ferrera, an actress known for her role on the ABC television sitcom "Ugly Betty," noted that no one in the audience was beaming more than Hillary Clinton. “I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child — hopefully children — as my mom was to me," Chelsea Clinton told the audience, which included young girls from several schools around the country who were participating by Skype.

Hillary Clinton did not address her future plans during Thursday’s event, but said she was “really excited” about the news and that it had added new motivation to her work through the Clinton Foundation.
"It makes this work even more important," Hillary Clinton said of the No Ceilings initiative, "because we’ve made a lot of progress."

"But I want to see us keep moving, and certainly for future generations as well, so that maybe our grandchild will not have to be worried about some of the things that young women and young men worry about today,” the former Secretary of State said. "So obviously we are very excited about what’s happening in our family, but we’re also very excited because of what we are doing -- that we hope gives confidence and support to so many of you across our country as you make decisions about the lives you want to lead, and trying to make sure there are no ceilings stopping you from going as far, and as fast and high as you can."

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Chelsea Clinton Gives Birth to Baby Girl Apr 18, 2014 1:51:50 GMT

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Bill and Hillary Clinton’s dreams have come true: Chelsea Clinton announced at an event Thursday that she and her husband are expecting their first child. The former first lady was beaming beside her daughter as she shared the news.

1. Bill on his bucket list, July 2010, at a Vienna conference:
“What I’d really like to do, if I could have my wishes, I would like to live to see my own grandchildren.”

2. Bill on Chelsea’s marriage to Marc Mezvinsky, September 2010, on David Letterman’s show:
“Hillary wanted this marriage because she wants to be a grandmother more than she wanted to be president.”

3. Bill on his and Hillary’s aspirations, January 2011, at Davos:
“I’d like to live, I’d like to be a grandfather. I would like to have a happy wife, and she won’t be unless she’s a grandmother. It’s something she wants more than she wanted to be president.”

4. Hillary on grandparenting, January 2011, to ABC News:
“Well, you know, I will only get in trouble however I respond to that. But let me just say, I love babies, so you know, maybe I’ll have more in my life someday.”

5. Hillary on becoming a grandmother, February 2011, to Harper’s Bazaar:
“Probably an unbearable one — the kind who is saying, ‘Oh, my gosh, I’ll take the child, I’ll do whatever you need to get done.”’

6. Bill on his “crotchety” future, June 2011, on “Good Morning America”:
“The less I say about it the better. I don’t want to jinx it, and I don’t want to interfere with it. I just, one day I’ll probably get to be a crotchety old grandfather and have a lot of fun on the floor playing with kids, but that’s not up to me.”
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7. Hillary on the title “Grandma,” April 2012, to ABC News:
“Well, that’s really not up to me, but I would like to have that title. I will certainly tell you that’s a title I would be proud to have. … I think I’d be pretty good, but I won’t know [until] I try.”

8. Bill on his wife choosing between being president and being a grandmother, September 2013, on “CBS This Morning”:
“If you ask her, I think she’d say grandmother, but I have found it best not to discuss that issue. My goal is to be a grandfather. The rest is out of my hands.”

9. Chelsea on her parents’ hopes for more family members, October 2013, to Rachael Ray:
“There is completely unapologetic pressure. In private and in public. If one of my parents were sitting here, they would tell you without blinking an eye that it would make them the happiest thing on earth if I were to make them grandparents, and they would say it so effusively, and I would feel a bit of pressure.”

10. Chelsea on her mother’s pressure, October 2013, in Glamour magazine:
“We want, God willing, to start a family. So we decided we were going to make 2014 the Year of the Baby. And please call my mother and tell her that. She asks us about it every single day.”

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Chelsea Clinton Gives Birth to Baby Girl Sept 27, 2014 22:55:59 GMT

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Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton finally have the titles they have long wanted: Grandpa and Grandma. Their daughter, Chelsea, gave birth to her first child — with her husband, Marc Mezvinsky — at 7:03 p.m. on Friday and posted the news on Twitter early Saturday. “Marc and I are full of love, awe and gratitude as we celebrate the birth of our daughter, Charlotte Clinton Mezvinsky,” Ms. Clinton said.

Mr. Clinton, in a statement on Saturday afternoon, said that “Charlotte’s life is off to a good start.”“Chelsea is well and glowing,” he said. “Marc is bursting with pride.” As late as Wednesday afternoon, Ms. Clinton was on stage delivering speeches and moderating panels at the Clinton Global Initiative gathering in New York.

The Clintons’ soon-to-arrive grandbaby was a constant topic of conversation at the meeting. When asked by CNN if he would “baby-proof” the White House — the implication being that Mrs. Clinton would not only run for president in 2016 but also win — Mr. Clinton replied, “One thing at a time.”

Both Mr. and Mrs. Clinton have a packed schedule this fall to raise money and campaign for Democrats in the midterm elections, although by Saturday morning Mr. Clinton had canceled an evening fund-raising event in Denver for Senator Michael Bennet and Gov. John W. Hickenlooper. Ms. Clinton, 34, announced her pregnancy in April at an event on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, her mother at her side and her husband watching from the back of the room.