Twitterbirth!!!

I like to give credit where credit is due…so first let me note that yesterday, Albany based publicist Lizzie Sorenson was the first to both succesffuly pitch and participate in a broadcast covered Twitter-birth (#twitterbirth). This is both groundbreaking and amazing on many levels.  

In the past 12 years, I have seen/read/heard a lot. This is an understatement. Trends move so fast they are on and off my radar screen before I can say belly bling. Game changers, like Lizzie’s twitter birth (not the first – dear friend Danielle Friedland had her bouncing baby boy Asher by Twitter birth in November) make us stop and take inventory.  Lizzie’s was the first twitterbirth covered by MSM, which of course will now become the stuff that history is made of.  My job is to make sense of it all.

Four years ago, New York Times uber talent Jodi Kantor “went there”.  And (ask Jodi, she knows) I still consider her piece to be not just well done (truth told, Jodi is really one of my journo-crushes because she is that good) but also a seminal Styles piece – one that opens the door in a way that it can never be closed again. 

 ”Move Over, Doc, the Guests Can’t See the Baby” was a discussion of boundaries (or lack there of), polictics  and even the economics of birth (stadium style births were good for hospitals!). Jodi showed us that TMI was quickly giving way to ”bring it on” and that designing the perfect guest list for your birth was a complicated mine-field (the new wedding). This seems tame now, and in reading it again this morning my face shifts from a smile of recognition to little nostalgic wince.

And that is because Lizzie invited her 1,500 followers to join in as she tweeted along on the way to her baby boy’s arrival yesterday. And her local news station WNYT followed it. And this morning she is talking to me on twitter about her nursing bra (yes, we sent her a Bravado Bra – she deserves the very best!!!) and to others about her first post-partum meal.

And earlier this week I was reading on the Huffinton Post about  Kourtney Kardashian tasting her own breast-milk.

And About.com pregnancy columist Robin Elise Brown shared this“twitterbirth fail“ yesterday.

And before that I was researching sonogram sharing via Facebook…

And so suddenly the collective gasp over guests in the delivery room in 2005 is about as dated as a rotary phone…

And, I am left to make sense of this all…Right now taking it all in, stay tuned (and chime in!)….