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Life as a mom continues to be nothing short of bliss for Kendra Wilkinson. In the Jan. 11th issue of OK!, the reality star says that 3 ½-week-old Hank Randall IV is a “calm, sociable” baby — and she attributes his serene demeanor to his nine occasionally chaotic months in utero!

“When he was still in my belly, he was always surrounded by so many people and so many noises, that I think he’s just used to it,” she muses. “He actually falls asleep best when he’s surrounded by lots of noise.” Kendra, 24, is quick to point out, however, that baby boy still has a few tricks up his sleeve!

“Don’t be fooled: When we put him in his bassinet upstairs and we want to go to bed, that’s when he’ll start to wail and cry.”

In those instances, it is often Kendra who springs into action. Husband Hank Baskett is a professional football player, and Kendra notes that “it’s the end of the season and playoff time [so] he has to focus.” Not that she’s complaining! “I say, ‘Okay, babe. This is my job,’” she explains. “We’re doing great. We’re a team.”

The couple are making their relationship a priority — “it’s important to keep the spark going,” Kendra notes — and will fly to Las Vegas for Valentine’s Day, leaving Hank IV with his grandmother. The separation will be tough for the first time mom, however, if a recent spa day is any indication.

“At first I was fine, but after an hour I started to miss him,” she admits. “I started to wonder what he was doing.”

“I got into the car and listened to music like I used to when he was in my stomach. I looked down and he wasn’t there and I started crying. I got home, ran into the house and almost forgot to take the keys out of the car because I was in such a rush to go see the baby!”

Click below to read about Kendra’s approach to losing baby weight.

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Darling Clementine, for sure!

Rachel Griffiths shows off her 6-month-old daughter Clementine Grace, who had just been baptized at St. Kilda Sacred Heart Mission Church, wearing a gown originally made by Rachel’s great-grandmother in 1920 — and worn by the actress at her own baptism! — on Dec. 27th in Melbourne, Australia.

The Brothers & Sisters star, 41, is also mom to daughter Adelaide Rose, 4 ½, and son Banjo Patrick, 6.

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While she may not be able to buy Heidi Klum’s maternity designs yet, it isn’t stopping Amy Adams from looking fabulous during her pregnancy, thanks to designer Carolina Herrera!

InStyle.com reports that the designer is reworking pieces from her current collections to create a custom-made wardrobe for the lucky mom-to-be. The Leap Year star tells InStyle.com, ”They made my clothes for the entire press tour. They’re amazing. They did such a great job.” And the actress is wasting no time debuting her new sophisticated maternity pieces.

On Jan. 4, Amy wore an aqua wool crepe dress for an appearance on Good Morning America. One day later, she stylishly stepped out in a gray mélange belted coat with red satin trim paired with silk mulberry dress for a taping of The Late Show with David Letterman. Last night, she looked ravishing in a ‘lava red’ silk georgette dress at the movie’s premiere. What a fashionable baby bump!

Tell us: What do you think of Amy’s red carpet maternity style?

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In a Wednesday appearance on The Bonnie Hunt Show, Jean Smart revealed that her family grew by one in 2009, with the adoption of daughter Bonnie, now 18 months, from China. The 58-year-old actress made the trip in May alongside son Connor, 19, and husband Richard Gilliland, exclaiming,

“When I came back, there were four of us!”

The sizable age gap between her children hasn’t posed a problem, though Jean admits that Connor was initially “more excited about the trip than the baby.”

Just a few days into the process, however, and Jean says her son was seeing things quite differently!” [Connor said] ‘This is incredible….I didn’t know I was going to feel this way…She’s amazing,’” Jean recalls. Adding that brother and sister are “so smitten,” Jean went on to quip,

“We thought they were going to be closer in age when we first started this!”

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Hot mama!

Paula Patton showed some leg in a black minidress at Wednesday evening’s People’s Choice Awards, held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles, Calif.

Due in May with a son she plans to name Julian Fuego, baby-on-the-way will be the first child for the Precious star, 34, and husband Robin Thicke.

See Paula and more moms-to-be in our Who’s Due Next gallery!

The tiny African nation of Malawi was unknown to many just a few short years ago, but pop icon Madonna brought it into the forefront when she initiated the adoption of son David Banda, 4, in 2006. Not long thereafter, she added daughter Mercy James, 4 this month, to her brood.

With more than 500,000 Malawian children orphaned by AIDS, the 51-year-old songstress admits in a new interview with CNN she “would love to take them all home” if she could. That’s not possible, of course, so Madonna did the next best thing: In 2006 she co-founded Raising Malawi, a non-profit organization aimed at delivering services and aid to the 14 million people who live there.

“We found and met a lot of people who are sick and dying of HIV and have no medical help,” she recalls. “It felt like a death camp. It was astonishing.”

At the same time, Madonna describes the Malawian people as “incredibly brave.” She adds,

“On the one hand I went there and thought: ‘I have to help, I have to save these people.’ And then I thought: ‘Wait a minute, I think it might be the other way around. I think they might be  saving me.’”

Giving back has given Madonna a better “appreciation for life,” she says. “I never intended to go to Malawi and dump a bunch of aid on people and flee the country; It’s always been about partnership.”

Her efforts will come to fruition in 2012, when the Raising Malawi Academy for Girls is scheduled to open.

The boarding school comes with a $15 million price tag, but Madonna has vowed to match each and every dollar donated towards the cause — and she’s matched $300,000 in donations already.

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After spending time visiting her mother in Australia, Naomi Watts lands at LAX with her boys — Alexander ‘Sasha’ Pete, 2, and Samuel Kai, 1 (not pictured) — on Wednesday.

Dad Liev Schreiber missed the chance to go Down Under this year, as he’s in New York preparing for his latest stint on Broadway, opposite Scarlett Johansson in A View from the Bridge, opening Jan. 24.

See more photos in the Watts-Schreiber’s family album!

Sasha wears Joe’s Jeans Rebel ($75).

Some stories for your Thursday afternoon:

• Do you use the “5-second rule” in your home? You might want to stop — INO Mommy
• Sad news: An elephant tramples a mother and her baby in Kenya — CNN
• Is a tummy tuck the answer to an extreme mommy makeover? — Health.com
• Healthy resolutions every parent should make — lilSugar
• One mom blogger resolves to donate $1 to breast cancer research each time she eats a piece of chocolate. Help her reach her goal of $10,000! — Just the Facts, Baby

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Sporting crimson from head to toe, a glowing Amy Adams steps out on Wednesday night at the New York City premiere of her latest film, Leap Year.

The actress, 35, and fiancé Darren Le Gallo are due with their first child together this spring.

What will they name the baby, whose sex they’ll soon find out (he or she wasn’t cooperating during the last ultrasound, Amy told David Letterman)?

“I don’t know yet! I really don’t know yet,” Amy explains to OK!.

“I’m gonna have to really meet the person before I know the name. I tend to be attracted to more traditional names, but who knows?”

Leap Year hits theaters Friday.

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During the holidays, the Klum-Samuels hit the slopes of Aspen for a little family fun. We spotted Seal and baby Lou on a walk and Leni and Heidi ice skating.

Johan, 3, was also on hand for some skating lessons and he was bundled up in the coolest cold-weather outfit.

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Like his older sister, he rocked one of Burton’s stylish snowsuits ($170) and a CrazeeHeads helmet cover ($32) in the Kleo the Tiger design.