Meanwhile, friends and family have been adding to the baby booty. Though Parker and Broderick have not registered at any New York City shops, Z'Baby Company, a tony baby store with branches on both the Upper East and Upper West Sides, has already logged a trove of purchases, including a rocking dragon and leopard-print booties. Z'Baby personal shopper Tara Rowntree said in October, "People have been calling up, saying, 'We need a gift for Sarah Jessica!' "

While some friends were waiting to learn the sex of this city baby, others chose gifts without an eye to what the stork might bring. At Parker's last public outing, on Oct. 24, a fashion awards dinner at which she was introduced as the "thespian and patron saint of shoe-aholics," honoree Blahnik, her favorite footwear designer, promised "a lot of gifts for her when the baby comes." Such as? "I'll surprise her," he said. "Maybe some shoes-who knows?"

Sex costar Kim Cattrall says she has been stalling on the gift front because she cannot think of something "this baby doesn't already have." But when she recently took off for Europe, she had Parker on her mind. "I'm going to do some intense shopping there and try to find something that is unique," she says. Not that it really matters, she adds with the fervent well-wishing sweetness that Parker and Broderick seem to inspire in all their friends. "The baby already has the most important thing of all: a great mom and dad."

-- JILL SMOLOWE
-- NATASHA STOYNOFF, LIZA HAMM, REBECCA PALEY, ELIZABETH MCNEIL, RACHEL FELDER and SHARON COTLIAR in New York City, DIANE HERBST in East Hampton and NANCY MATSUMOTO in Toronto

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