Beyonce gives birth to girl: reports

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Beyonce arrives at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) August 28, 2011 at the Noika Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, California.

NEW YORK, Sunday

US pop diva Beyonce has given birth to a girl named Ivy Blue Carter, media reports said.

The baby and mother are doing well.

The New York Daily News reports the singer checked into Lenox Hill Hospital on Manhattan's upper East Side on Friday night under the name "Ingrid Jackson."

Beyonce and her husband, hip-hop star Jay-Z, rented out the hospital’s entire fourth floor for $1.3 million, the report said.

On Saturday night, people were seen bringing bags of food and bottles of red wine onto the heavily guarded hospital wing, apparently for celebrations, The Daily News noted.

Several security guards were spotted patrolling the perimeter of the hospital, the paper said.