A little over a year ago Sanchez Dragó and his wife were news to tell through Twitter what was happening during his birth. Something similar has happened these days with a woman, named Ruth Iorio, who On the day of his birth he dedicated himself to explaining the process on Twitter and other social networks.
His first tweet, with which he began the story said the following: "The contractions began at 8 pm. Mild, 30 seconds and every two and a half minutes. I called the midwife and told her that I am cleaning the house #ruthshomebirth". So with the hashtag we just saw, ruthshomebirth, was explaining what was happening and was publishing images of the process.
The delivery lasted twelve hours, it was at home, and through the messages it was telling how the contractions were, how often, when it broke waters, how it felt, hung some photos and finally announced the birth of Nye Soledad Iorio, accompanied by a photo with her and a close-up photo of the little girl.
As he has said, it helped him a lot to have freedom to move around the house, since he could not have done the same in a bed with an IV. In addition, he said that Twitter helped him too, because that way he could get distracted and everything became more bearable.
Then I leave you with some of the tweets and the images that Ruth was hanging, so you can also see the process:
Contractions started at about 8pm. Mild, 30 secs long, 2.5 mins apart. Called doula and told her I was cleaning the house #ruthshomebirth
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 26, 2013I'm definitely not against medication and hospitals: I certainly am happy they are there for back up. #ruthshomebirth
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 26, 2013OK, you'll get in the bath. Always the chance a bath may slow / stop contractions. But I'm cool with that, and doula is too #ruthshomebirth
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 26, 2013Four hours in and every two mins now pretty hard. Trying to slow it down. #ruthshomebirth
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 26, 2013
Ah, back labor. //t.co/f22PGqgINh
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 26, 2013
Water broke at 620 am. Home stretch //t.co/2oaayi7M42
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 26, 2013
Hello world Fuck, that hurt. Totally natural birth, all doped up now! //t.co/GLB5eQSbfI
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 26, 2013
Nye Soledad Iorio, 8 pounds, born at 9.04am on 12/26/13. Did I mention how amazing my husband Jared… //t.co/jMKLdryxop
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 26, 2013
Doula Allegra and my placenta! #ruthshomebirth //t.co/x1WooL8Mk2
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 27, 2013
Nye was perfect and not admitted, I needed a blood transfusion. Midwives were amazing and came with us #ruthshomebirth
- Ruth Fowler (@fowlerruth) December 27, 2013Would you do it
I remember the time when mobile phones came out. See someone talking on the phone on the street it was most absurd. In fact, there was even a joke for it:
How do a condom and a mobile look like? In which the two cover a cocoon.
As time went by we all ended up having a cell phone and we all ended up talking to him on the street. Then the mobiles were modernized and a few years ago they became a window to the Internet and social networks, to the point that we can hang our lives on the network through our photos and our opinions.
I would not do it. I did not do it. We went to give birth three times and the mobile was turned off three times. I have no need to explain point by point how something as intimate as a baby's arrival in the world advances.
However, in the same way that many people explain anything on social networks, I understand that, more and more, there will be women who will also tell their births. Maybe this mother did it because she felt incredibly good at giving birth at home, even though she later ended up in the hospital in need of a blood transfusion.
As I say, I still think that the mobile there are places and times when it should be off, and this is one of those. But at the time. Now it may seem an eccentricity, but nowhere will social networks be full of births and births.
