If we ever have another baby, I suspect that the hospital having Wi-Fi connectivity will not be something she gets excited about.
Parents to be: call ahead to your hospital and ask them if they’ve got wi-fi, and if they don’t, suggest that they do. It costs the hospital basically nothing to set up, and there’s something in the soul of a father that demands that he share the fruit of his loins with the entire world. In the old days, he’d stomp through the waiting room handing out cigars. Today, he’s curled in the corner on a laptop, FTP-ing images from a compact flash card directly to a webserver. Friends and family are all over the place; they wish they could be there, and they can’t. But if there’s one thing that technology can do well, it is bridge distances.
That’s all very well, but even though the gent writing the blog of his wife’s delivery notes that he was only blogging while his wife was sleeping or chatting with the nurses, I think I’ll do things (should such a circumstance come up) the old-fashioned way, and wait until I get home to blog about it.
What…that you would be blogging instead of taking care of bidness, or that you would be posting photo’s of the event real time on the Blog?
I think this entry says it all
“Unfortunately, the hotspot petered out just as The Wife was about to start pushing, and she was oddly unsympathetic to my bodily contortions as I wheeled around the room trying to get a signal. So, I had to wait. THEN, we got into the Post-Partem room and no hotspot at all. Sooooo punk. Now I’m home: I ate and showered quickly, I’m typing this as fast as I can, then I’m heading back up to the hospital with Chinese food for the wife.”
The only thing he does right is bring his wife Chinese food.
There’s a site, though, to set up quick, temporary blogs for family members during a hospital stay: Caring Bridge. I have a relative that’s in the hospital right now for a horse riding injury–from what I understand, they actually have a place at the hospital, Sioux Valley in Sioux Falls, SD, where you can log in.
That’s very cool.
Setting up a notebook still seems like a lot of work. Of course, if I had the right Palm Pilot with a wireless conneciton …
Hypothetically all around, of course.
Sioux Valley does lots of cool stuff — got give props to those folks — best premmie unit between Mnpls and Denver, and lots of interesting tech bennies for the newborn’s family.