I had a scheduled csection. I posted the night before saying DH and I were enjoying the last quiet night in the KDubs household.
Family/super close friends got a call or text right after he was born. Then I announced officially on FB about 10 hours after he was born once all the visits had died down.
We were team green, so family and friends were informed that they would not be announcing the sex/name until we made it public.
Post by sunshine608 on Sept 1, 2014 20:11:45 GMT -5
I checked in via FB when I got to Ld. Something along the lines of "here we go" .
DS decided to make an arrival 4 days before my scheduled c/s so i did a quick update. My pregnancy had not been previously announced on FB so only people who knew got it. Others just though I was checking in at the hospital.
I did get more likes on that post when I posted a pic of ds 3 months later.
Post by imojoebunny on Sept 1, 2014 20:18:37 GMT -5
I called a friend that I had given my Facebook password. She posted that DS had been born and we were all doing fine. Since I went into labor in front of 20 people I am Facebook friends with, rather dramatically, it was sort of fun. I had too much going on to worry about it. DS was fast.
No way. Aside from our bosses/coworkers, no one even knew I was in labor, family included. I was in labor for 38 hours and C was born at 5:40 am and we didn't even tell family she was here until after 1pm. Facebook came later in the afternoon.
Post by statlerwaldorf on Sept 1, 2014 20:59:12 GMT -5
I posted during my induction, but mostly out of boredom. When I went into labor with ds, it was a lot more painful and I didn't want to mess with my phone. I ended up with a c-section a few hours later. I posted when I was in recovery waiting for ds to get out of the NICU.
Post by cherry1111 on Sept 1, 2014 21:01:10 GMT -5
I had a scheduled induction and did post the night before when we went to the hospital. I posted the birth announcement/picture about 4 hours after he arrived mostly because I wanted to beat anyone else to the punch.
Post by SallySparrow on Sept 1, 2014 21:05:40 GMT -5
I was in labor for 21 hours. IF I thought it was okay to post about the status of my cervix on Facebook, which I don't, it would have been the slowest, most boring thing ever.
DH posted a picture of me about 9 hours into it, playing on my phone. Kind of a "so, we're in the hospital" update. No other updates until a while after she was here.
FB, hell no. I JUST posted that dd was born at all and she is nearly 36hrs old.
Here, sorta. I posted when we were going to the hospital, that we were sent home, when we were going back, and that she was born. I will eventually post a birth story.
Post by irishbride2 on Sept 2, 2014 4:24:57 GMT -5
I didn't post anything until after she was born with the first one. But since I was in labor so long (about 42 hours) and my family knew, eventually they started posting on FB so everyone knew.
With DS, we checked in to the hospital. Whatever, I didn't care if people knew I was in labor. My labors were long and tedious. Chatting on FB gave me something to do. I didn't post about my cervix though.
I did not post anything on FB. A few people who knew (since my mom called their moms lol) posted things like "so excited to hear an update" but I did not post any particulars. Once he was born we did a birth announcement.
I emailed my closest friends privately to keep them posted that I was in the hospital, and so on.
Besides cervical status, which is tmi.. I don't get the hate about posting this stuff on Facebook.
For example, DH and I have really huge extended families that live all over the country and it was a nice way to share the birth of our children with them.
To think some people were judging us for that is just... Why waste your time judging that? It's good news and some people like to share it sooner and more publicly than others.
Yeah I was wondering the same thing. I'm not a huge Facebook poster, but some people are and announce their pregnancy and monthly updates about their pregnancy, the sex, etc. It seems like those type of posters would announce that they're at the hospital and X centimeters dilated. If it's not your thing, cool, but it doesn't seem like an offensive post in my opinion.
My ILs informed me that they would be at the hospital when I deliver. I told H years ago that I don't want everyone at the hospital. My plan is to not tell them or post anything so they won't just show up (because they will).
I've also had sooo many instances (as a NICU nurse) where mom has to go under general for a C/S and her family posts pics and stats of the baby on Facebook before she's even conscious. The world sees the baby before its own mom. I intervened just last week when a GIL was asking her daughter how to post the pictures.
It's a little AWy. Some people care - most likely your immediate family - but to be honest most people would be satisfied with a nice staged pic of a clean baby and mom days after the kid is born. The vast majority of your acquaintances aren't waiting with baited breath to find out that you're at 8 cm or whatever.