Today's Celebaby is a mish-mash of a few bits and pieces featuring, briefly, Beyonce's baby get-away, Billie Piper's baby gender announcement and Ben Foden goes baby shopping.

Beyonce

If you were wondering what the press were going to do with themselves now that Beyonce and Jay Z's baby has arrived, now we know - they're going to be rushing around trying to be the first ones to get a picture of Blue Ivy Carter, that's what they're going to be doing.

They didn't manage to catch her departure from hospital though - their plans were scuppered by a 'secret' dash for it at 1.30am in the morning in a Mercedes van (well, come on, it looks like a van to me!) that Beyonce has had customised to the tune of $1 million.

It's also been reported that the hospital undertook some serious renovations/remodelling at the request, and expense, of both Beyonce and Jay Z - apparently, according to one of those useful sources, eight rooms were knocked through and turned into a suite just for them including a bullet proof door (not too paranoid and over the top then!).

The other bits...

Billie Piper and her husband, Laurence Fox, have announced they're expecting another boy - they already have a three-year-old son (Winston) and are said to be over the moon that there's a little brother for him on the way.

In one of the funniest newspaper reports I've read in a while - when I say funny, I mean funny in an 'oh please' kind of way - Una Healy and Ben Foden were 'spotted' out shopping for baby things, I say 'spotted' because Una had tweeted earlier in the day that that's what they were going to do.

Mamas and Papas was dubbed as the 'celebrity baby shop of choice' and Ben 'gallantly' carried the bags...erm, there were only two and they really didn't look that heavy!  THEN, staff were photographed carrying a cot to Ben's car - the cot looked huge and the car's boot was barely big enough to take those two bags that Ben gallantly carried.

Anyone would think they were the first people to go shopping at M&P where the man carrried the bags.

Two existing celeb' mums have announced they're expecting their second babies this week and two celeb' dads have been left holding the babies, although only temporarily of course.

Stacey Solomon

I admit that the X-Factor is the sort of TV programme that I avoid like the plague, but if I happen to catch it on a Sunday afternoon it doesn't take much to get me hooked - it's a bit of a guilty pleasure if I remember it's on.

I will also admit to completely loving Stacey Solomon, I thought she was great and I don't begrudge her a single penny she makes from here-on-in off the back of her X-Factor time (even those naff Iceland adverts!).

Woaaah, what's with all these celeb mums spilling the beans about the precise details of their family planning?

First Melanie Chisholm, of Spice Girls fame splurged to the Telegraph, telling them how she and partner Thomas Starr made time for making babies;

'I'm madly organised," Chisholm says. "We sat down and I said we have to fit the baby thing into our schedules. Tom laughed and said it doesn't work like that, you know. But, in fact, we were lucky. I got pregnant right away.'

Ew. I mean congratulations on the easy creation of Baby Scarlett and all that but really, do you have to create these mental images in newspapers which most of us happen to be reading while we're scoffing lunch? Put me right off my Cup-a-soup, that did.

Billie Piper is at it, too, telling all in an interview with Marie Claire. Asked about the timing of baby Winston's arrival in her life, she said;

"Well, you do make an active decision that you're not going to use condoms or whatever. Then there's that 'I am so in love, I just want to have your baby'. It's such a hot thing, it's so gorgeous. 'We fell in love, I want you to impregnate me' - I don't know what's not hot about that. And also, making a child in the throes of love instead of 'Oh, I suppose we should knock one out'. We were in our house in the country and we'd just got back from our honeymoon. It was literally jet-lag sex."

Ladies, puh-lease. We know you're thrilled with your new-mummy status and adorable off-spring, and so you should be, but there are some things which only Mummy and Daddy really need to know about.