Courtney Cox delivers Arquette spawn

[Josh]

Just a month after the end of Friends, and following years of failed attempts, Cox and husband David Arquette (news) welcomed their first child Sunday in Los Angeles.


According to People.com, Cox went into labor Saturday night--their five-year wedding anniversary, no less--and gave birth to girl early Sunday, about a week before the baby was due.


With the tricky part out of the way, the couple had begun working on the next step: the name. As of Sunday afternoon, they reportedly had not announced a moniker for the tyke.


No further details were immediately available.


Not only does the news comes as the perfect anniversary gift, but also as an early birthday present for Cox, who turns 40 on Tuesday.


The camera-ready twosome, who met on the set of 1996's Scream, had gone public in recent months with their child-bearing difficulities.


Last fall, the duo sat down with 20/20's Barbara Walters, and Cox said in effort to become a mom, she had suffered through "many miscarriages."


Cox said the couple had begun trying to conceive via in vitro fertilization, and if that failed, she said they would consider alternatives, but only as a last resort.


"I do want his genes," Cox told Walters at the time, "and I would probably try a surrogate before that...but then, absolutely, adoption."


In October, weeks after the 20/20 interview, David's brother Alexis told Sharon Osbourne that his sister-in-law was pregnant, but the publicist for Cox and Arquette adamantly denied it. (Let's see, October to June...hmm, denial or not, the math does work.)


Finally, in January, the couple announced that they were expecting. By the series finale of Friends last month, Cox was reduced to wearing baggy clothes to disguise her burgeoning belly.


Arquette 32, recently starred with DMX in the action flick Never Die Alone and, according to IMDB.com, has also completed work on two upcoming projects: the indie film Slingshot opposite Thora Birch (news) and Julianna Margulies (news) and the movie version of the Stephen King story Riding the Bullet.


Additionally, Cox and Arquette jointly produce the home-decorating series Mix It Up, which just began its second season on the WE: Women's Entertainment cable network.

[masterthes]

I'm happy for her

[crappertay]

They called the kid Coco

I think I preferred Apple.

[Josh]

Originally posted by Tay
They called the kid Coco

I think I preferred Apple.

I wonder if they watch Seinfeld?

[phenotype31]

Here's a pic of the child:




What a dumb name.

I still feel bad for my cousin though, her parents named her Stormee. That just screams hooker. Maybe her and Coco can hook up and do a double team show in 18 years...

[Deus Ex Machina]

Coco Arquette-Cox

It kind sounds like an old engine that won't turn over.

[Luthien Tinuviel]

Originally posted by Deus Ex Machina
Coco Arquette-Cox

It kind sounds like an old engine that won't turn over.

I pity that child. They are going to have hell to pay in Jr. High.

[Deus Ex Machina]

Jr High!? With any luck the kid's parents will spring for private tutors...elementary school kids can be brutal...Coco Puffs...Coco Pebbles...Chocolate Coco...

:violin

[Josh]

So who wants to bet that name was David's idea. :\