Roberts' twin baby in intensive care - report

One of Julia Roberts’s premature twins is in intensive care, it was reported today.

The Oscar-winning actress is said to be keeping a bedside vigil at the Los Angeles hospital where her daughter Hazel Patricia is suffering respiratory problems.

Hazel was born five weeks early, weighing just 4lb 5oz. Her twin brother Phinnaeus Walter was heavier at birth and is said to be in good health.

The children were born on November 28 but had not been due until early January.

Roberts, 37, and husband Danny Moder, 35, are reportedly with Hazel at the Cedars Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles.

A friend of the Pretty Woman and Erin Brockovich star told a US magazine: “This is every mother’s worst nightmare – to have a new baby struggle to survive after being born prematurely.

“Hazel has had respiratory problems since birth and was placed in an incubator while her lungs fully develop.

“Doctors have tried to reassure Julia that the chances are good that Hazel will be fine and there will be no long-term complications.”

The friend said: “With Hazel, all they were able to do for the first few days was look wistfully at her through the glass and hope and pray that everything would be OK.”