Comments on: Guy live-Twitter’s wife’s childbirth, lives to tell about it

By: annamarie saarinen

annamarie saarinen — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:18:11 +0000

I wonder if I am allowed in on this…no one will likely read this 2.5 months later. But I’m obliged to say I fully endorsed my husband’s geekdom during my labor. I’m pretty sure we were both in this endeavor for the right reasons. And it’s been pretty cool for me to look back at his take on the events of an exceptional day in our lives. Not sure how this is much different than my dad taking polaroids in the delivery room in 1969.

Brink — no egos involved. WE couldn’t care less whether YOU or others in the vast webland are interested in our daughters birth. Gratefully we have our own family and friends that are.

Anand — I hope to heaven I’m able to articulate when and how often I need my hand held. This wasn’t every couples birth plan. But it was ours and it worked just as it should have.

Ms. Grier, (is your name really Tish??) God, I’m sorry luv. This is baby # 2 for me - and YUCK simply doesn’t apply. OK, so mega-adult diapers and copious amounts of fluid aren’t the lovliest part, but having a child is beauty in it’s simplest, most raw form. I am blessed to have experienced it. And I believe Paul brought his own unique personality to his experience as a new dad. He’s a nerd (a hot nerd, but still a nerd). Using Twitter before anyone knew what the hell Twitter was.

Finally, I know my butt doesn’t compare to a celebrity butt…butt I’m pretty sure the camera wouldn’t fit. Before or after birth.

PS For the record, Walter Cronkite is a national treasure. Would have gladly sent him a Twitter invite to the birth…

Invitedmedia — “Pinktoothing”….I love that. Thanks for the congrates. She is a sweet, sweet girl - who I’m sure will someday view our mode of documentation of her birth like we view the 8-track. “Live Twitter…God, that’s so last decade!!”

Rex, you rock.

By: David Johnson

David Johnson — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:10:38 +0000

birth shmirth… let’s see who will be the first to live twitter their vasectomy. “@drevil: you’re right, a freshly shorn scrotum is quite breathtaking!!!”

By: Brink

Brink — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 22:31:13 +0000

What egos these sorts of people have, to assume that everyone (or anyone) cares about their lives!

By: tish grier

tish grier — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:37:16 +0000

oops! sorry ’bout that.. should’ve probably said “up their noses”…then again, I had a blog for years that had a particular “s” word in it, and all that did was boost my readership.

By: tdc

tdc — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:03:43 +0000

tish, those “camera up the butts” comments will now be picked up by algorithms the world over.

thanks. LR will now be infested by pervs (well, more of them anyways).

later

By: joy

joy — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:19:31 +0000

marc1919 also twittered the birth of his daughter a few weeks ago.

By: Tish Grier

Tish Grier — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:15:32 +0000

Ok–this is YUCK on many levels….first, the general yuck level of childbirth (*you* might think it’s great, but from a woman’s perspective, is this something that really needs to be broadcast–and in any medium??) Second: lifecast? oh, please! All this media openness about our personal lives is hitting the point of overload. We have cameras up the butts of celebreties so much so that it’s obscuring real news–now we’re going to have cameras up th butts of the average citizen too? please! i’m beginning to wish for Walter Cronkite now more than ever!

By: bill streeter

bill streeter — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:34:32 +0000

Hardly a first. Several people I know have live twittered the birth of their children since I became a regular user in March. The first one I remember was in March in fact. One of my Twitter friends is a maternity ward RN in NYC and regularly twitters about births. It’s actually a pretty obvious thing to do.

But congratulations anyway!

By: Anand

Anand — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:50:07 +0000

What an idiot!!

It’s YOUR wife dude..and its YOUR baby…hold their hands when its required..

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 02:43:48 +0000

Steve - Last week, Cindy Adams repeated a Valleywag thing about Natalie Portman seeking backers for her own lifecast. It’s all sort of an extension of those old sites, where people would have their rooms wired and Ed-TV. I don’t know that any of them in current production is all that interesting, but as I blogged recently, I’d probably check in on Ms Portman from time to time, if she doesn’t go subsrcription-only.

Click my name for the tiny Cindy Adams blurb or trial balloon.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:31:00 +0000

Go to “justin dot tv” to find out about lifecasting. It’s not a new term. But it’s a great term. There are a couple people who are live webcasting their lives. Hence: Lifecasting.

By: Safran

Safran — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 23:57:51 +0000

I don’t know if taulpaul meant to coin the word “lifecasting” or if it’s a function of the “f” being directly above the “v” on the keyboard, but I love the word in this context.

You’ll want to get the baby through blueteething quickly. They can get very cranky.

Congrats, again. I remember my wife looking sideways at me when I sent out a mass email to friends from my handheld a few minutes after my second son’s birth in 2001.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:21:16 +0000

Dude - You also broadcast the birth on Ustream?
Your wife must be a saint.

Congrats!
From a father of two, whose wife would’ve never let me do such a thing, if I had even thought to ask.

By: invitedmedia

invitedmedia — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:45:43 +0000

pinktoothing, btw.

By: invitedmedia

invitedmedia — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:44:24 +0000

“lives to tell about it.”.. and he just did! wow!

congrats from detroit.