My husband live tweeted my birth

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My husband is not a writer; in fact, he has one of the worstΒ memory banks I’ve ever known for someone in his age bracket. But he IS a tweeter.Β And his live-tweeting of both of my births has been the sweetest thing for threeΒ reasons:

Her husband live-tweeted her birth and it was basically the cutest thing ever!

1.) It’s his birth story.

He would never, ever sit down and type out a birth story the way I (and many mothers) would. But I can print out his tweets from that fateful day and paste it into a baby book just the same, and there is our birth story, through his eyes and in his words.

2.) It kept our distant loved ones connected.

We live far away from lots of family. Even the family that lives nearby wasn’t allowed to be in the delivery room with me, so this was my husband’s way of keeping them all in the loop. His grandmother, who is housebound but uses Facebook like a pro, felt like she was in on all the action, and we loved that she could be a part of it.

3.) It literally got me through the toughest part of my labor.

I was 5cm into my second birth, striving for a natural VBAC, but feeling like I wasn’t going to make it through one more contraction without an epidural. The nurses kept moving me around into uncomfortable positions to help with the baby’s decelerating heartbeat (deja vu from my first birth which ended in an emergency c-section), and I was about to throw in the towel. But my husband sent out a tweet asking for words of encouragement from my friends and family. I sat in the shower with the hot water on my shivering legs and he read me their responses. And though it was just the two of us in there, all of a sudden, I had my best friends, my sisters in law, my mom, my doula from my first birth and so many others sitting right there with me, cheering me on, telling me to just get through the next contraction. And it got me through that terrible halfway point. Once I was past that bleak spot, I knew that I could make it the rest of the centimeters, naturally.

Some women would obviously not want too much information out there, and I get that. Others would not like the disconnection of their partner whenever he does go into the world of social media; I get that too. But the trade off was really good for me, and I wanted to share it with you.

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^^I don’t know what IΒ wasΒ looking at here. But I had been through three days of early labor already at this point, so I’m just glad my eyes were open. #sleepdeprived

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It was an awkward thing to lug into the hospital, but that birthing ball was the BEST place to sit during contractions.

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^^I never called him an idiot–for the record.

^^Like my gown? I totally recommend bringing your own gown to the hospital. That way, you know it’s clean, it covers all of yourΒ body parts while you go on a labor walk, and they are designed for easy nursing and skin-to-skin time.

^^And no, the water leak problem was not related to my breaking water. :P

^^Don’t judge. I love SettlersΒ of Catan.Β 

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I naturally VBACed that 9 pound baby. Let’s not talk about how hard that recovery was.

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Want to hearΒ more about my first birth? Read this:

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