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Tweets from the Womb

By  JULIE FIEDLER

Updated 3:18 PM CDT, Mon, Jan 26, 2009

Related Topics: Twitter Inc.

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Family and friends of unborn fetuses can can follow baby, too.

 

Twitter. It's a free service that lets you follow friends, icons, and even random people halfway around the globe. But for family and friends of unborn fetuses... well, you can follow baby, too.

Corey Menscher designed a DIY tweet device which registers movement in the mother's belly. Whenever the baby kicks inside the womb, the device picks up the motion and sends a tweet: "I kicked Mommy."

Each tweet the same, each upon a kick. While kind of cool, we think this one falls into the realm of REALLY? Do people really need a kick play-by-play? Would it really sustain interest from daddy and first time grandparents? Not to mention... does mommy really want to wear that thing just so someone can have an up-to-the-minute account of her mundane baby intimacy?

And if she has bad gas, does that register, too?

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  • babyrn Sunday, Jan 11 at 9:27 PM FLAG COMMENT i'm a nurse in a newborn nursery & yes i can see a medical application for this but beyond that it is too cutesy for words.
  • eric Thursday, Jan 8 at 3:48 PM FLAG COMMENT another great BLOG post, nbc
  • Ally Thursday, Jan 8 at 2:37 PM FLAG COMMENT You obviously have never been pregnant, Julie. This actually is a reeeeeeally cool idea. When you're later on in your pregnancy, you have to do "kick counts" to make sure your baby is still active as they should be. It's a way to monitor their health from outside the womb. If they stop kicking for a long time, something is probably wrong.. So having a device that takes the guesswork out of kick counts is reeeeeeally cool! For ... MORE >

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