COURTENEY COX& DAVID ARQUETTE´S NEW MIRACLE

Courteney´s story of fertility problems will be sadly familiar to many women with APS. It also gives hope to sufferers, as diagnosis and treatment has improved the chances of a happy outcome for many.

After an arduous weekend labor and just two days before her 40th birthday, Courteney Cox gave birth to a 7 and 1/2-pound baby girl, Coco Arquette, on Sunday, June 13.

"The baby is named after Coco Chanel," says a friend of Courteney, exclusively to Star. "Courteney is absolutely thrilled! She doesn´t stop staring at the baby. She considers it ´The Miracle Baby´ because of how hard it was to have her!" The Friends star and her husband of five years, David Arquette, 32, tried to conceive for more than two years and suffered several miscarriages before doctors discovered Courteney had a blood disorder called Antiphospholipid Syndrome, or APS, that was preventing her from carrying a fetus to term.

"David is ecstatic," Courteney´s friend says. "Totally bowled over and blown away! He and Courteney are like two kids with a puppy. They both keep looking at the baby and saying, ´I can´t believe we made her!´ All they do is smile from ear to ear since the baby was born."

But it wasn´t all smiles during the long labor, which caused Courteney an unbelievable amount of pain. "David said that Courteney was in so much pain and he hated seeing her like that. He said he felt helpless because he couldn´t do anything to help her. David never left her side throughout the labor. Courteney wanted him at her side, holding her hand."