Question the Wisdom

Jennifer is a New York-based journalist who's simultaneously starting a family with her husband Ron, and an online news publication in her neighborhood. Go ahead, question the wisdom.
Jun 8 '11
via Hip Mom Tweets During Childbirth - Gawker So, tweeted childbirth: Yea or nay? It’s not like we saw anything gross, and until you get to the really active part, labor does seem pretty boring, lying around counting your contractions and such. Why not spill your guts online, while your guts spill slowly out of your vagina? On one hand, plenty of parents document childbirth with still and video photography. Others give relatives a play-by-play by telephone. Therefore, Twitter is just another medium by which people do stuff they’re already doing. On the other hand, Twitter is very public (as recent events prove) and is synonymous with narcissism. It redirects the focus of childbirth from the newborn to its parents. Pitiful.

via Hip Mom Tweets During Childbirth - Gawker

So, tweeted childbirth: Yea or nay? It’s not like we saw anything gross, and until you get to the really active part, labor does seem pretty boring, lying around counting your contractions and such. Why not spill your guts online, while your guts spill slowly out of your vagina?

On one hand, plenty of parents document childbirth with still and video photography. Others give relatives a play-by-play by telephone. Therefore, Twitter is just another medium by which people do stuff they’re already doing.

On the other hand, Twitter is very public (as recent events prove) and is synonymous with narcissism. It redirects the focus of childbirth from the newborn to its parents. Pitiful.