Mom Plans Live Birth on the Internet
Want an unedited, raw look at childbirth? You’ll soon get one. A first-time mom-to-be is planning to show her entire birth live online later this month.
She’s telling us only that her name is Lynsee (she’ll show us her hoo-ha, so it makes sense that we’re on a first-name basis) and she’s twenty-three, a teacher married to Anders.
The entire pregnancy is being documented on MomsLikeMe.com, with support from KARE-11, a TV station in the Twin Cities area (Lynsee lives in Minneapolis). They’re tracking her doctor’s appointments, her growth (there are pictures showing her tummy in different stages of baby bulge) and of course, the birth.
Lynsee told the TV station they think it will be a great memento for their child, but they also “hope to help answer any kinds of questions for other couples who are pregnant and going through the same issues.”
So what does she get out of it? She’s no Kate Gosselin - even a mega baby shower at the Mall of America benefited Families Moving Forward (a Minneapolis charity) rather than Lynsee and Anders.
But unlike TLC’s The Baby Story or even Jon and Kate, this will be a live show - no editing, no cutting back when things get rough. This is her first birth - and she has no idea what to expect. In fact much of the chronicling of her pregnancy in the Watch Lynsee Grow group at MomsLikeMe (which boasts almost one thousand members) details her questions. The back-and-forth with questions and answers from other moms and moms-to-be mirrors the support groups that crop up all over the internet for would-be parents. Of course, none of them are planning to give birth live in a few weeks.
Lynsee will be answering a lot of questions for people (and acting as instant birth control for some others - sorry, it’s a beautiful thing, but not to everyone). And heaven forbid something DOES go wrong, everyone will watch it go down (that’s the breaks when you go live).
The question is - would you do it? Would you even watch?
Lynsee is due Nov. 19 - if you’re game for watching, check out the Watch Lynsee Grow site to keep tabs on when she goes into labor.
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Tags: childbirth, childbirth on the internet, childbirth on tv, Jeanne Sager, live childbirth video, pregnancy, Watch Lynsee Grow
7 Comments
Bean's Mom commented on Nov 03 09 at 7:16 pmGotta be better than planning a still birth on the internet. Ba dum dum.
patricia commented on Nov 03 09 at 9:42 pmBean’s Mom, ladies and gentlemen! She’ll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitresses.
llmissmasonjar commented on Nov 04 09 at 9:57 amI guess I’m not a fan of publicizing personal moments; but if she’s comfortable with it, then who am I to judge?
GP commented on Nov 04 09 at 3:51 pmI guess she is less afraid of such things than those who would call a vagina a “hoo-ha”…
Not for me, but bully for her.
Ana Voog commented on Nov 04 09 at 5:25 pmi already did this 2 years ago. in fact, she was conceived “on the internet” and you could watch the entire pregnancy unfold 24/7. i then gave birth on cam at home.
Ben commented on Nov 11 09 at 10:08 amMediaCurves.com conducted a study among 303 viewers of a news clip discussing a woman who plans to broadcast coverage of her giving birth on the internet. Results found majority of viewers (75%) reported that they would not watch the coverage of the delivery. Furthermore, the majority of viewers (53%) did not think there was educational value in broadcasting video coverage of child birth on the internet. In addition, the majority of viewers (60%) did not think it was ethical to put such video content online.
More in depth results can be seen at:
http://www.mediacurves.com/NationalMediaFocus/J7622-OnlineBirth/Index.cfm
Thanks,
Ben
Nakia commented on Nov 22 09 at 1:28 amShe will probably have fewer witnesses than I had- with the nurses, doctors, administrators, repairmen, etc. my birth center room was busier than Grand Central.
