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A Labour Worth Tweeting About

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A Labour Worth Tweeting AboutA Labour Worth Tweeting About

Mother tweets every detail of her labour and birth - gaining hundreds of fans on Twitter!

For most women, having a baby is probably not the best time to be multi-tasking. But one tech-savvy mom managed to Tweet most of the way through the birth of her second child!

Fi Star-Stone was determined to send ‘live’ Twitter updates during her 13-hour drug-free labour to help ‘dispel the myths of childbirth’.

The 34-year-old’s tweets describing the home birth of her son Oscar were followed by hundreds of online friends and even a couple of celebrities.

Mrs Star-Stone, from Stafford, is a nursery nurse who also runs a parenting advice website. She said she wanted to reassure other moms out there that natural birth was a positive experience. She said:

‘I’ve worked with children for 19 years and have always had mums telling me how scared they are of pregnancy. I did this to show them the positive side of childbirth and to show it could be done without pain relief – and while Tweeting the whole time.’

While in her birthing pool, Mrs Star-Stone posted nine Tweets from her iPhone after going into labour at 2.30am on Friday. An hour into labour she wrote: ‘Me and my hippy no pain relief... Ouch. Could do with a large vodka!’

Baby Oscar, who was born without any complications at 3.42pm, was introduced to hundreds of her supporters and fans. He weighs a healthy 3.4 kg. She said:

“I got so many messages of support – it was a fantastic experience.”

Her husband Richard, also 34, a PR consultant, said:

“Fi’s pregnancy has been a big topic of interest and she wanted to dispel some of the myths about childbirth. People often pass on the worst nightmares instead of something positive.”

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The couple have an older daughter, Betsy, who was also born at home and almost exactly a year before her little brother. Congratulations to the happy family!

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