Mad about Makena'lei

Helen Hunt and boyfriend Matthew Carnahan welcomed daughter Makena’lei Gordon Carnahan on May 13. She arrived several weeks early, weighing about 6 pounds.Neither Helen or Matthew are Hawaiian. The baby’s first name comes from a dream a friend of Helen’s had, and her middle name is from Hunt’s father, TV director Gordon Hunt.Helen formerly starred in the sitcom, "Mad About You," and hasn’t been seen on the silver screen since 2001’s "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion." She’ll be in two upcoming films: the Oscar Wilde adaptation "A Good Woman" with Scarlett Johansson, and the HBO movie "Empire Falls," based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo, which co-stars Ed Harris and Paul Newman.Via SFGate.com and nm