{"id":738555,"date":"2013-02-19T14:51:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=217614"},"modified":"2013-02-19T14:51:05","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:51:05","slug":"you-can-watch-a-live-tweeted-c-section-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/738555","title":{"rendered":"You Can Watch a Live-Tweeted C-Section on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, you can watch the miracle of life unfold on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Memorial Hermann Hospital at Memorial City Medical Center in Houston Texas will be the first hospital to <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sfgate.com\/hottopics\/2013\/02\/19\/woman%E2%80%99s-c-section-to-be-broadcast-live-through-twitter\/\">live-tweet a surgical birth<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a medically indicated c-section. 39-year-old mom had an urgent c-section before &#038; chose not to VBAC. Our goal is to educate,&#8221; says Memorial Hermann. &#8220;Patient privacy is of utmost importance. Patient &#038; family have consented &#038; we&#8217;ll only disclose age &#038; condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to follow multiple stages of the process: admission testing, anesthesia and delivery of the baby. It won&#8217;t be for the faint of heart, as Memorial Hermann promises live, close-up photography and video alongside the play-by-play-tweets. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>Tomorrow: The first baby born on Twitter. Follow live photo &amp; video clips of a C-section Wed. @ 7am CST. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search\/%23MHbaby\">#MHbaby<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Zfut7RWp\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/c-section\">bit.ly\/c-section<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Memorial Hermann(@houstonhospital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houstonhospital\/status\/303878089610514433\">February 19, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>@<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lulizzylu\">lulizzylu<\/a> You&#8217;ll see real pics\/videos of surgery. We&#8217;ll explain that C-section is associated with risks &amp; should only be done if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Memorial Hermann(@houstonhospital) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houstonhospital\/status\/303928008027279360\">February 19, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is the same hospital that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/memorial-hermann-texas-medical-center-live-tweets-brain-surgery-2012-05\">live-tweeted a brain surgery last May<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>You can follow all of the action on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/houstonhospital\">@houstonhospital<\/a> account and the special <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23MHbaby&#038;src=hash\">#MHbaby<\/a> as well. Everything kicks off Wednesday morning at 7am CST. <\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=zY_z2hYuga0:3UMKXhtq4xk:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=zY_z2hYuga0:3UMKXhtq4xk:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=zY_z2hYuga0:3UMKXhtq4xk:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=zY_z2hYuga0:3UMKXhtq4xk:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=zY_z2hYuga0:3UMKXhtq4xk:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=zY_z2hYuga0:3UMKXhtq4xk:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=zY_z2hYuga0:3UMKXhtq4xk:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=zY_z2hYuga0:3UMKXhtq4xk:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=zY_z2hYuga0:3UMKXhtq4xk:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/zY_z2hYuga0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow, you can watch the miracle of life unfold on Twitter. Women\u2019s Memorial Hermann Hospital at Memorial City Medical Center in Houston Texas will be the first hospital to live-tweet a surgical birth. &#8220;This is a medically indicated c-section. 39-year-old mom had an urgent c-section before &#038; chose not to VBAC. Our goal is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-738555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-368b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}