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Tales from the crib
You may recall that I was initially reluctant to write or post photos of the impending baby arrival. My wife, especially, was spooked by the online crazies (you might be one of them!) and the idea that we would be revoking an innocent child’s privacy before she’d even opened her eyes.
After going through the experience (the baby, Lilly Grace, turned two weeks old Aug. 27), we’re glad we posted photos online and even more glad that the San Antonio hospital that was our home for four days was also equipped with Wi-Fi access. Sure, we still fielded quite a few phone calls from family and friends, but being able to post a photo and send out e-mails to those who couldn’t visit was invaluable. Getting the word out to our loved ones, but having the filter to control that output — deciding which handful of photos, carefully cropped, we were willing to share; carefully wording our own e-mail announcement, chatting online only when we had some down time — proved really helpful.
We’re still finding the ground beneath us when it comes to other Web stuff: I’ve got an amazingly cute video I shot of the baby raising her head for the first time, but I’m reluctant to YouTube it, even just to share with family and friends. There are plenty of gory details about the birth and the two weeks that follow that make great stories, but not necessarily stories I’m willing to share with the whole world.
But the Web, at least in this instance, proved my paranoia wrong. Maybe we were just lucky, but there was no negative blowback, no snarky comments from anonymous jerks. It was warm wishes and love from the people we reached out to online. We were pleasantly surprised.
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