Before his dramatic entry in the art world and beyond, Rocco Ritchie made a dramatic entrance into life. After being rushed to the hospital for abdominal pain and bleeding the evening of August 10, 2000, Madonna gave birth to her son Rocco John Ritchie by emergency c-section three weeks before his due date. Madonna suffered a detached placenta, a serious and life-threatening condition for mother and child alike.
Fortunately, doctors at Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Hospital were swift to diagnose Madonna and successfully deliver Ritchie on the morning of August 11, 2000, several hours after Madonna had arrived. Rocco Ritchie's father, director Guy Ritchie, stayed by Madonna's side through the hospitalization and Rocco's subsequent birth. Madonna's then-publicist, Liz Rosenberg, further affirmed that Madonna and baby were doing well. "She is safe, as is little Rocco. Guy and Lourdes are by her side," Rosenberg said in a statement, per BBC News.
Rocco Ritchie was Madonna's second child, and the first child and sole biological child born to Madonna and actor Guy Ritchie.
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