Nicole Richie is in labor. Nicole and baby daddy Joel Madden should be welcoming their second child any time now. Hopefully the death of friend and ex-fiance DJ AM didn’t make Nicole go in labor too early. 

More pictures of Nicole after the push…

Hopefully the news and name of  Nicole and Joel’s baby will be released soon. According to Latina:

Nicole Richie checked into a local Los Angeles hospital over the long Labor Day weekend in anticipation of giving birth to her second child. Richie had apparently wanted to be able to pay her last respects to ex-fiancé Adam Goldstein (aka DJ AM) before heading to the maternity ward.

The couple refused to find out the sex of the baby until the birth, telling press, “We don’t know what the sex is. We waited on the first one and it was such an awesome experience that we can’t wait to see what the next one is. It’s exciting to wait it out.”

Is this a new practice, to check in before you actually go in to labor? I thought you only did that for C-sections, but I know they wouldn’t keep you in over the weekend for that!

Congratulations Nicole and Joel!

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