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Music power couple Beyonce and Jay-Z are beginning the new year as new parents.  Reports on Beyonce’s closely-watched pregnancy reached a climax Saturday night when the singer gave birth to the couple’s first child, a daughter they named Blue Ivy Carter.  Reports of Baby Blue’s pending birth reached a fever pitch Friday.  That’s when a hospital staffer reportedly told the “New York Daily News” that Beyonce had checked in to a private wing of New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital under the name “Ingrid Jackson.”  The hospital source claims Beyonce and Jay-Z rented out the hospital’s entire fourth floor for one-point-three-million dollars to secure their privacy.

Blue Ivy is the first child for Beyonce and Jay-Z, who quietly married in April, 2008 after six years of dating.  Beyonce announced her pregnancy at last August’s MTV Music Video Awards to much fanfare.  The announcement set messaging records on Twitter and became one of the most-talked about moments in entertainment for 2011.