Singer Jill Scott, Fiance Welcome First Child

R&B singer Jill Scott and her fiancé, drummer Lil John Roberts, welcomed their first child on Monday April 20 -- a brand new baby boy.

The singer's manager confirmed the birth with People this week. The bundle of joy was birth at 4:20 p.m. on Monday, and weighed 7 lbs., 8 oz.

The couple named the baby boy Jett Hamilton Roberts.

Scott, who stars on HBO's new series "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency" (based on the popular novels by Alexander McCall Smith), discovered she was pregnant shortly before leaving for Botswana to film the show.

"At one point I was trying to gain weight for the role, and I noticed I had put on 7 lbs. in 7 days. And I thought, my god! What's going on here," she tells People. "I thought something was wrong with me, and I found out I was pregnant the day I was supposed to leave for Africa."

She first revealed the news at the Television Critics Association conference in Los Angeles in January, explaining the hard time she had during her first trimester.

"The first trimester I spent in Botswana," Scott said. "That was one of the biggest challenges of my life. First trimester! You're sick every morning. It was seven hours time difference, the heat, the bugs, the 14 hour days."

Despite the pregnancy, she continued filming: "My doctors gave me a clean bill of health and said you can do this, so I did it."

Scott and Hamilton got engaged at a concert in New York City on June 2008.

"I definitely had issues over the course of my life, reproduction issues," Scott told People. "I was married for five years and could never conceive a child. Until now ... It's the most amazing thing that's ever happened to me."


Congratulations to Jill Scott and her family.