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Our friends did, it was great!

ynnej — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:25:28 -0500

A couple we are very close to had a baby and it was a kind of complicated issue. I was so nervous for them the whole time that I slept with the iPhone next to the bed so I could get the Twitters on the status. I was SO GLAD they were Twittering because I felt like I could participate with them that way!

http://ConscientiousConfusion.blogspot.com

Considered it, but no

amygeekgrl — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:57:09 -0500

Twitter wasn't around yet (or maybe it's more accurate to say I wasn't on Twitter) when my son was born at home in Nov. 2006. (I'm not really sure when Twitter emerged.) I had considered live-blogging his birth, but in the end I decided I wanted more privacy while in labor. I was worried that if I said I thought I was in labor and then it turned out I really wasn't, I'd have had people bugging the crap out of me from then until he was actually born and I didn't want that kind of pressure. Plus the whole thing went super fast at the end too so there wouldn't have been much blogging actually taking place.

Amy
Crunchy Domestic Goddess
BlogHers Act contributing editor

I didn't have a computer

Deaf Mom — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:52:58 -0500

I didn't have a computer when my third child was born at home, but I posted his birth story on the 'net three years later.
If I were in labor today, I'd be twittering from the tub.

Karen

"Life is too short to pout all the time."

A Deaf Mom Shares Her World

Hands & Voices

I Didn't Know Yet!

JennaHatfield — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:33:15 -0500

LittleBrother was born in Nov 2007 and I hadn't discovered Twitter. I had planned on "live blogging" the birth but we didn't even take the computer to the hospital because HE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE BORN when he was. I was having some heavy contractions at 38 weeks and the doctor just wanted me to come in to monitor for a bit.

And then he was born. SURPRISE!

That said, if we were having more, I totally would. Alas, I cannot and will live through others.

FireMom of Stop, Drop & Blog

Totally Would

TW — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:53:51 -0500

I tended a nasty flame war on Parent Soup and posted to the boards JUST over 10 years ago during labor.

I never saw the pediatrician assistant again when she didn't say "You were the one on the laptop hooked up to the phone when this one (or that one if youngest was just in tow) was on her way. Yeah. That was me. Totally would twitter it.

~TW
Retro-Food

Too Old

Adriennevh — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:45:55 -0500

Twitter wasn't around when I gave birth, hell the internet didn't even exist way back then. But when my sister had her son, she blogged the entire pregnancy and had her husband live blog the birth for those of us desperately trying to get across country to her in time.

http://mypage.iusb.edu/~ezynda/jkz/daysofjkz.htm

Fabulous

amygeekgrl — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:38:55 -0500

Thank you for doing whatever you can to help spread the word, Kelly. :)

Amy
Crunchy Domestic Goddess
BlogHers Act contributing editor

This is an excellent idea.

mamarussell — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:00:19 -0500

This is an excellent idea. I will be passing the word around.

Kelly

Happy wife and contented mother

Wisdom Begun

I'm glad you will be taking

amygeekgrl — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:42:34 -0500

I'm glad you will be taking it and hope you will pass it along to other women you know who've recently had kids. It certainly has the potential to be a great tool for so many. :)

Amy
Crunchy Domestic Goddess
BlogHers Act contributing editor

I tried to take the survey

amamasblog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:28:21 -0500

I tried to take the survey but couldn't figure out how to get past a certain point- it kept kicking me out. Now that I know what the problem was (user error) I will be taking it soon. This will be a great resource.Heather* A Mama's Blog- A Mama's Blog

you are so twisted- DEM

rshannigan — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:39:11 -0500

you are so twisted- DEM stands for DIRECT ENTRY MIDWIFE, it has nothing to do with place of birth. in washington and in California, CNM's deliver at home and in hospitals, depending on what's best for the patiends. so the chart you showed isn't really saying what you're interpreting it to say.

I think you'd have a hard time finding a homebirth midwife willing to deliver a high-risk pregnancy at home. So naturally, the docs would be a little worse. However, you can't attribute the birth outcome solely to the location of the delivery any more than you can attribute it to the color of the woman's skin or anythign else.

It's not surprising that the AMA opposes homebirth. Homebirth with a homebirth midwife is cheap and safe; it trivializes the need for a medical institution that profits when people are sick and dying.

http://mrshannigan.blogspot.com

first post on Blogher

NurseBarb — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:20:50 -0500

Hi,

I'm a newbie too, trying to figure out how to upload a photo. You figured it out, yea!

Wow, you are going through a lot of transitions. I'm a women's health nurse practitioner, and I imagine that you're not getting much sleep right about now. I hope your mom has a long and healthy recovery after her chemo and gets to enjoy her new grandchild. #4 should be an easier delivery, fingers crossed.

Stay positive. Every day with your mom is a gift.

Be well,

Barb

www.NurseBarb.com

Welcome aboard!

rebellious thinker — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:45:33 -0500

So many of us have different reasons for finally getting out of reading-only mode to reading and writing on blogs. I'm sorry that yours has been from so much pain. So you have the birth of your blogging self now, and soon the birth of your 4th child. The sweet mingling with the bitter. Life.

Laura, www.RebelliousThoughtsofaWoman.com

poor sweet mamas + babies

modmom — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:41:36 -0500

great post amy!

reminds me how lucky i am to survive cancer + enjoy mothering my daughter

Link Textmod*mom

modmom.blogspot.com

WOW! no words~I wish Matt

lilmommythatcould — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:55:31 -0500

WOW! no words~I wish Matt and his beautiful baby all the love in the world.

~Susan

http://lilmomthatcould.com/