Clay Aiken’s son is here!

The 29-year-old singer and his best friend, producer Jaymes Foster, who was artificially inseminated with Aiken’s sperm, welcomed a baby boy this morning in his home state of North Carolina.

Clay Aiken wrote on his site:

“I’m sure you know…I hate putting the cart before the horse. Not my way to tempt fate. But I wanted to stop by, if only for a second, so you could be the first folks I tell…HE’S HERE!

“My dear friend, Jaymes, and I are so excited to announce the birth of Parker Foster Aiken.

“Faye Aiken, Clay’s mother, told Raleigh radio station WRAL that her son’s longtime producer gave birth to son Parker at 8:08 a.m- (that is pretty cool if it’s true cuz then it would be 8:08am on 8/8/08). Parker Foster Aiken tipped the scales at 6 pounds, 2 ounces and measured in at 19 inches.”

She also broke the news that the baby did not inherit dad’s fiery red mop on top instead saying that he has dark hair and that, upon seeing him, the pop singer was “smiling from ear to ear.”

“The little man is healthy, happy, and as loud as his daddy. Mama Jaymes is doing quite well also. The Aiken family, the Foster family, and the Parker family are all thrilled.”

Parker is the surname of Aiken’s late stepfather, whom the singer has frequently credited with helping raise him.

Aiken, 29, and Jaymes Foster, whose age is somewhere around the 50-year mark, have been friends for years. She worked on several Aiken albums, including A Thousand Different Ways and On My Way Here.

Although theirs is not a romantic relationship, the duo plan to raise the baby together.

In the new issue of Essence Magazine, R&B sensation, Usher, opens up about his ups and downs of being married, the choices he’s made, putting God first, and his ultimate purpose: being the best father he can be to his son, Usher Raymond the V.

In the last year, you got married and you’ve had a baby. Which has changed you more?

“They’re both linked—I can’t have one without the other. But the one thing that changed me the most is having a wife. Our child is an extension of that union.”

Why?

“Because now I represent what he is to become. He’s gonna admire me, he’s gonna look up to me. He’s gonna say, “I wanna be”—or he should say— “I wanna be like my father. I wanna be a man of valor. I wanna possess what my father has as a man.” To get married was a choice. To have a child is a responsibility.”

Does that new responsibility challenge you to make music that is more responsible?

“I started making ‘Here I Stand’ before I had my son and before I was married. It was a deliberate choice to make music with substance, not just about the things that we’re accustomed to—music about being the celebrity, the player, or having the car, the girl and the bling.”

Your father wasn’t around to raise you. How do you plan to be different for your son than your father was for you?

“Just simply being there. I don’t judge my father because I forgave him for anything he’d ever done to hurt me unintentionally. My father and I had a very short amount of time together throughout my entire life, but the most valuable time was during his final days. He asked me to forgive him for not being there. He asked me to give him a chance, give him a shot because he loved me, and he had always loved me. But it was very difficult for him to be in the situation he was in and be the example he wanted me to follow. So he intentionally stayed away. And he was kept away from me too. He didn’t like it, but he didn’t fight it because he knew he wasn’t living right.”

What would you say to young men and women about what they should expect from a man who’s a father? What is living right as a father? How do you define that? How would that man look?

“That man would accept his responsibilities as a father, regardless of whether he was with the mother of the child. Men will leave a situation for several reasons. One, it’s not comfortable. It may be violent. The two of you may grow apart. But you should never abandon that responsibility, which is to be there, reading with your child, being supportive of your child’s growth. That is communicating. That is making the choice to put your child before your own vanity.”

If you could take your finger and touch your 9-month-old son, Usher V, on the head and impart some certain knowledge, what would you want him to know?

“First of all, I’d actually look inside myself and evaluate what I felt like I missed from my own father.”

What did you miss?

“Knowing that I was accepted. That I mattered. And hearing that he cared enough to put me before himself.”

It’s being reported that Matthew McConaughey doesn’t want to marry girlfriend/mother of his soon to be born baby boy/Brazilian Super Model, Camila Alves.

He’s very excited at the prospect of becoming a father–and has been very public with expressing his joy–but a friend told OK! magazine that “Matthew is getting used to the idea that he’s going to be a father. He says that’s enough to deal with right now. He has no plans to walk down the aisle with Camila now-or ever.”

This is apparently disappointing to both Camila’s and Matthew’s mothers. A friend of Camila said, “Camila comes from a very strict Catholic background. And Matthew’s family is very traditional too. Everyone, apart from Matthew, feels a wedding is in order.”

Ummm…I guess neither she has inherited the strict Catholicism practices of her family given that she got knocked up prior to marriage (or maybe that is part of Catholicism? The whole getting knocked up part?? But usually you just get married afterward…) & he his family’s traditional background cuz honestly, he’s super hot, but you know he’s also quite the male slut…we still love’em though!

Jamie Lynn Spears has made the decision of giving her baby to her mother to raise.

Lynne Spears doesn’t believe that her daughter understands the consequences of being a teen mother, especially a famous teen mother.

Lynne has decided to raise Jamie Lynn’s baby back in their hometown of Louisiana, out of the spotlight, to try and give a normal life.

Lynne says, “she still wants her daughter to be able to be a teenager, go to parties, hang out with friends and still have a career. So she’ll take the front seat of caring for the baby and take the pressure of her daughter.” 

I’m glad that Lynne is helping out her daughter especially during this difficult time. But it makes me wonder if she is really the best candidate to take care of her daughter’s baby. I mean look at the way her two daughters grew up.

Matthew McConaughey and gorgeous, model girlfriend Camila Alves are expecting their first baby. They will fit right in with the baby boom phenomenon happening now.

In a letter posted on his official website, Matthew says:

Got some blessed news…a celebration of life and bounty…a newborn conceived. Yes, my girlfriend Camila and I made a baby together…it’s 3 months growin’ in her womb and all looks healthy and lively so far.

We are stoked and wowed by this miracle of creation and this gift from God, and so excited for the adventure that will come in raising this child, being mother and a father, and shepherding him or her through this life.

Wish us the best, keep us in your prayers, and God bless evolution. Thanks for being fans of me and my work and now this new and miraculous chapter in my life, as me and Camila and our child do our best to just keep livin’.

Wow, McConaughey.