You Can Now Watch a Birth Happen in Real Time . . . on Instagram

"Is this helping?" I asked. "No, not really. But we've tried everything else so we might as well give it a try! And I'm bored," she said.

PS: Your Instagram captions tell such a captivating story, too. Is it hard to keep that up?

CD: I'm just there picking up on things. I love telling stories, and photos even can't fully do it sometimes, especially for nervous family members refreshing the feed. I'm observing what's going on around me and jotting down notes as I go. In fact, I'm still learning about birth. There are still a lot of things I may have written about that weren't fully correct because I was relaying what was said at the time.