Baby girl for Sir Paul and Heather

Thursday, 30 October 2003 12:00 AM

Sir Paul McCartney and wife Heather Mills have become parents after the couple's first child was born a month early.

The baby girl was reportedly delivered in an emergency Caesarean operation at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in St John's Wood, London on Tuesday.

"Paul has been at her bedside all day and has just gone home. Heather is resting," a source told the Daily Mirror.

Beatrice Milly McCartney weighed seven pounds and is named after Heather Mills' mother Beatrice and Sir Paul's aunt Milly. Both mother and baby are said to be doing well.

The couple, who married in June 2002, delivered a statement saying they were 'ecstatic' at the birth and described their daughter as "our little bundle of joy".

Sir Paul, 61, has three grown-up children - fashion designer Stella, 31, Mary, 33, and James, 25 - by his first wife Linda who died in 1998. He also has a stepdaughter Heather, 39, from Linda's first marriage.

Mills, 35, lost a leg in a road accident and reportedly has steel plates fitted to her hips, which would have made a natural childbirth impossible. The baby is the former model's first child.

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