Angelina Jolie's mom to help with birth

PARIS, March 29 (UPI) -- Actress Angelina Jolie has flown her cancer-stricken mother from Los Angeles to France so she can be with her when Brad Pitt's baby is born.

Jolie brought her mother, French actress Marcheline Bertrand, to Paris but the family -- including Pitt and their two adopted children -- left for the south of France to escape bad weather, the Sun reported Wednesday.

"Angelina is very close to her mother and she so wanted her to be there for the birth," a source told the newspaper. "Angelina has been having regular check-ups at a hospital in Paris and it is expected that she will give birth within the next few weeks."