#MyWaterBroke #TheHeadisCrowning #aBoy!
Submitted by brian s hall on 1 February, 2012 - 11:28
The smartphone is the cigar!
You know what's cool?
Well, yes, a billion fucking dollars is pretty cool.
What else is cool, apparently, is women live tweeting and otherwise live updating childbirth:
A new survey of more than 1,000 pregnant women conducted by American Baby magazine [reveals that] fifty-one percent of respondents planned to record the birth -- as it takes place -- through social media, with 42% planning to post regular Facebook updates and 9% planning to tweet about the experience.
American Baby executive editor Laura Kalehoff points out that many of the women surveyed haven't known an adult life without social networking.
"The millennial mom went through college with Facebook," Kalehoff says. "They're accustomed to communicating that way, and it feels very natural to share your pregnancy and labor with everyone."
The women surveyed ranged in age from 18 to 49, with the majority being 18 to 29. (Forty percent were 18 to 24 and 25% were 25 to 29.)