"We are in heaven," said the couple of the arrival of Blue Ivy Carter. 
 
 "Hello Hello Baby Blue!" starts the statement from new parents, Beyonce and Jay-Z. The music powercouple brought their first child, Blue Ivy Carter, into the world on Saturday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. 
 
 
 
 The released an official statement on Monday, writing, "We are happy to announce the arrival of our beautiful daughter, Blue Ivy Carter, born on Saturday, January 7, 2012." 
 
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 "Her birth was emotional and extremely peaceful, we are in heaven," they add in the statement. "She was delivered naturally at a healthy 7 lbs. and it was the best experience of both of our lives." 
 
 
 
 Fans have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of Beyonce and Jay-Z's child since Beyonce revealed she was pregnant back at the MTV VMA awards. Rumors began spreading more than a week ago that Beyonce had already had the child. 
 
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 Even on the day of the actual birth, more rumors swirled including that the couple shelled out $1.3 million to book a whole floor in the maternity ward, a claim that the hospital quickly refuted. 
 
 
 
 "The suggestion that the couple paid $1.3 million to rent an entire maternity floor is simply not true. The family is housed in an executive suite at the hospital and is being billed the standard rate for those accommodations. Our executive suites are available for any patient, including the food service and amenities provided to the Carter family," Frank Danza, a spokesman for Lenox Hill Hospital stated. 
 
 
 
 Jay-Z has also released a musical statement about the birth of his daughter. The rapper released a song, “Glory” feat. B.I.C., on his website on Monday. In the rap, Jay spits that, “My greatest creation was you” and dedicates the track to “the most beautiful girl in the world.” ||||| Beyonce gives birth to girl Blue Ivy Carter with Jay-Z by her side at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital The star, checked in to the hospital with the alias Ingrid Jackson, rented out fourth floor for $1.3 million 
 
 A very pregnant Beyonce checked into the upper East Side hospital Friday night under the name “ Ingrid Jackson ,” a hospital staffer told the Daily News. 
 
 BABY-ONCÉ finally has a name — Blue Ivy Carter. 
 
 Music royalty Beyonce and Jay-Z welcomed the baby girl in a private wing of Lenox Hill Hospital, the E! network reported Sunday. The baby's name was originally reported by E! as Ivy Blue. 
 
 Music mogul Russell Simmons also confirmed the arrival of the bundle of joy, tweeting “congrats to my good friends Beyonce and Jay-Z.” 
 
 Gwyneth Paltrow, a good friend of the music moguls, tweeted, "Welcome to the world Blue! We love you already." 
 
 Rihanna added her congratulations as well, writing "Welcome to the world princess Carter! Love Aunty Rih." 
 
 A very pregnant Beyoncé had checked into the upper East Side hospital on Friday night under the name “Ingrid Jackson,” a hospital staffer told the Daily News. 
 
 Beyoncé and her hip-hop hubby, whose real name is Shawn Carter, rented out the hospital’s entire fourth floor for $1.3 million, the employee said. 
 
 On Saturday night, people were seen bringing bags of takeout and a dozen bottles of red wine onto the heavily guarded hospital wing. 
 
 After 11 p.m., even doctors and nurses were barred from entering the fourth floor, prompting one doc to complain that he had patients to see. 
 
 In an effort to keep images from leaking to the public, hospital workers placed tape over security cameras and are forcing employees to turn in cell phones when they arrive for their shifts, a source said. 
 
 Several security guards were spotted patrolling the perimeter of the hospital Saturday night. 
 
 A Lenox Hill staffer confirmed that a patient named Ingrid Jackson was in a “labor room.” 
 
 Reps for the power couple did not return requests for comment. 
 
 The 30-year-old singer was last seen Thursday when she was photographed leaving a Manhattan apartment building wearing hip-hugging jeans, gold heels and a patterned scarf masking her belly. 
 
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 Image Jay Z releases rap song for baby Just days after Beyonce gave birth, father Jay Z has released a rap song for their daughter Blue Ivy. Producer/editing: Josephine Asher 
 
 Celeb couple spend $1.5m on newborn daughter 
 
 Reportedly bought a diamond-encrusted high chair 
 
 Jay-Z raps on birth of daughter Blue Ivy in song Glory 
 
 She's barely two days old but Beyoncé and Jay-Z have already spent an astonishing $1.5 million on their newborn daughter. 
 
 She's barely two days old but Beyoncé and Jay-Z have already spent an astonishing $1 million on their newborn daughter. 
 
 
 
 The superstar couple have splashed out on everything from a nursery, to a diamond-encrusted high chair and other extravagant goods for the tot. 
 
 And little Blue Ivy Carter, who was born in New York late on Saturday night, reportedly even has three identical nurseries already made up in the couple's three U.S. homes. 
 
 
 
 The R&B singer and her rapper beau spent £240,000 alone on the special bedrooms for the baby. 
 
 
 
 A source says: 'Together they’ve bought a Swarovski-studded high chair by Carla Monchen for £10,000, and a Fantasy ‘posh tots’ coach carriage crib for £30,000. 
 
 
 
 'Jay-Z bought Beyonce a solid gold handmade Ginza Tanaka rocking horse for £400,000.'They’ve even splashed out on a £20,000 magical windmill playhouse for the garden and a mini Bugatti car, too.'And their extravagance doesn't stop there - the couple have even bought expensive jewellery and baby trinkets to mark her birth.The source adds: 'They’ve got baby charm bracelets, gold and platinum diamond rattles and dummies from Tiffany & Co, too.'The news of the spending spree follows over-the-top security measures put in place by her pushy, famous parents at the Manhattan hospital where she was born. 
 
 To accommodate the influential couple’s demand for privacy for them and their new kid at Lenox Hill Hospital, other new and expecting parents said they have essentially been put on “lockdown” - and even booted out of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, which was on the same floor as Beyonce’s delivery “suite” - so the pampered songstress and her party could come and go unencumbered. 
 
 
 
 Although the couple are ecstatic now they've welcomed their first child in to the world, they have been hiding a secret heartache, which they've only just unveiled. 
 
 
 
 On Thursday, Jay-Z revealed Beyonce suffered a heartbreaking miscarriage before falling pregnant with Blue Ivy last year. 
 
 
 
 The rapper made the revelation in a new song called Glory, which he posted on his social website Life and Times yesterday. 
 
 
 
 The tune is a tribute to their daughter, and in the track, Jay-Z, 42, talks about where the child was conceived (in Paris) and even reveals that Beyonce, 30, had lost a child at one point. 
 
 
 
 He sings: 'Last time the miscarriage was so tragic/We was afraid you'd disappear/But nah baby you magic.' 
 
 
 
 The sound of crying Blue Ivy can be heard at the end of the song. 
 
 
 
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– Blue Ivy Carter has already charted on Billboard—did you expect anything less from the daughter of music royalty? When dad Jay-Z released "Glory," a song for his new daughter, he also officially billed it as "featuring B.I.C.," her initials. (The song, which you can listen to at left, includes some of the baby's first sounds.) It was released within two days of her birth and debuted at No. 74 on the R&B/Hip Hop Songs chart, making Blue officially the youngest person to appear on a chart, Billboard confirms. More on the progeny of Jay-Z and Beyonce, who went home early Tuesday: State health officials did look into complaints from fellow new parents at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, some of whom claimed security for the superstars kept them from seeing their own babies. Those complaints were dismissed last night, the AP reports. The hospital is performing its own investigation, but says that the parents spoken to so far had no complaints. But there's no disputing that Beyonce gave birth in the lap of luxury. TMZ reports that she was the first patient to use a new luxury suite at the hospital, which the gossip site compares to a "Four Seasons penthouse." It includes, among other things, four flat-screen TVs, a kitchenette, and some pretty posh furnishings. Click for pictures.