Your Internet Pregnancy
Friday, February 19, 2010 at 3:57PM We cannot escape the internet! All our friends and family are stalking our Facebook, Twitter, and other social network pages. Now that you are pregnant (or have a new baby) here is how you can make the best of your Internet Pregnancy!
1) Subscribe to MomVault’s favorite pregnancy/parenting websites that provide week-to-week progress updates on your baby both in the womb and after he or she is born. They will all provide a slightly different perspective and information so subscribe to all! Click the banners below to sign up!
(TheBump has an iPhone app called Pregnancy 411)
2) Create a 
account to make 
an online scrapbook of your weekly belly photos and other events such as ultrasound pictures! See my blog pages here... I made it to 39 weeks but had my son the day I was supposed to take the picture! This site is really easy and has free art work to use.
3) Join a social network that your friends and family belong to so you can keep them up to date on your pregnancy. This is a great alternative to mailing letters, printing photos, and digital picture frames that are time consuming and costly. On Facebook you can create customized lists and post to specific groups that you want to keep updated.
Practical Point: I check my social networks and weekly emails during the late night feedings on my cell phone to keep me occupied while he nurses.
Do you have more suggestions for your internet pregnancy? Email your ideas to momvault@gmail.com!
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Reader Comments (4)
My wife and I subscribe to Baby Center, and I find it outrageously informative. A lot of times, being the father, it is hard for me to visualize exactly what's going on inside, when I don't have that physical connection with my unborn child.
The weekly updates from Baby Center are great to help me with understanding what new developments are happening, how big my child is, and what senses and parts are growing and developing.
We subscribed with our first child (he's 3 years old now), and we are still getting great information for him, and how to deal with having a toddler around. Being able to track the progress in both of our children helps me to understand better what they're going through.
I would highly recommend new families sign up at Baby Center!
Another social network that I would suggest is iVillage - I found a group on there for children that were born the same month as my daughter, so we were able to bounce things off of each other and relate to issues because we were all going through them at the same time. In fact, they're some of the most amazing mother's I've ever met!
http://parenting.ivillage.com/messageboards/
I go online too whenever baby wants a feed. I have trouble staying awake while she nurses so checking emails and visiting Facebook did the trick. If I had known about Scrapblog before I would have produced a similar online scrapbook of my belly photos!
Shirley Grace
http://pregg.net
Yes Shirley, my iPhone was the best thing I could have done around that time for email/social network checking during feedings. It was quite an upgrade from the blackberry I had and will serve the same purpose this time too!