Joel Madden and Nicole Richie aren’t ones to let parenthood get in the way of a good time.
The pair have been hitting the party circuit hard ever since Nicole Richie took all of 20 minutes to lose her baby weight (the photo at right? Taken last weekend), with one source saying:
“It’s almost as if they aren’t parents.”
Which means their newborn daughter, the one-month-old Harlow Winter Kate Madden, has been spending lots of quality time alone with the help.
That foundation they created in honor of baby Harlow should make good on its promise to provide other young parents with everything in the Madden-Richie nursery: a couple bottles of formula in the fridge and a nanny in the east wing.
I think it’s just nasty talk around them. If they wouldn’t get out of the house, they would all go “oh, nicole is motherhood-ing too much, she’ll exhaust herself” now they’re partying too much! Well I guess they never had babies of their own, so it’s impossible for them to know what a tricky time the after birth is…And how socializing could do you and your baby a world of good.
I hope I’m not getting this all wrong, but in my experience with babies and after birth, I wish someone would socialize me a little bit when I was getting “too mummy”…
hmm. Of it really is that bad, that makes me sad.
I agree with you kpriss. I have a 2 yr old and a 10 month old… and for a really long time I never got out at all. We just didn’t have a trustworthey sitter. Now I’m lucky if I get out 2 evenings a month tops, and frankly, it’s isolating and lonely. If I had the resources to hire a full time nanny, the kids and I would ALL be better socialized!
However, a month after birth? I don’t know about that.
Wasn’t Nicole left alone as an infant….and a toddler, wandering the streets…maybe this is all that she has known…..give them time~ Some parents find this infant period one with minimal return….wait ’til Harlow smiles at them…..
Every parent needs time away, its good for you and the baby. However, there is such a thing as too much. Britney Spears (when she had custody of her kids) is a good example of too much, as for these two, I guess we’ll see.
OK, just read the link in this article. Oh my god, Lindsay Lohan, at a hotel, Really?! Who the hell would leave their one month old with the likes of Lindsay Lohan in a hotel?! You have money, hire a nanny and let the baby stay in her own house. Or do what us poor folk do and leave the kid with the grandparents, they love it!
Ok, sorry, I read it wrong. The parents went to a hotel to spend time with Lindsay Lohan. Thank god, I was genuinely concerned for that childs well being.
It’s okay jlynn – my instinct would have been to call child services too.
And I don’t disagree that it’s good for parents to have some time away from the kid, but back-to-back weekends where they were seen out until the wee hours on multiple nights? Seems to be bordering Britney Spears territory.
I agree, that would seem excessive. I just haven’t read anything about these two going out so much. Guess my own kids will have to spend more time with our nanny (we refer to her as tv) so I can brush up on my gossip.