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When Amanda Hess found out she was pregnant with her first kid, she was home alone.

She'd just taken a pregnancy test.

I immediately Googled what to do when you get pregnant.

That was a pretty good clue to the internet that I was pregnant now.

Amanda is a critic at large at the New York Times,

and the author of Second Life, having a child

in the digital age. I think one of the things that's so insidious about pregnancy-related

tech is that a lot of people are not discussing their pregnancies much, especially at the

very beginning of them. I told the internet about my pregnancy before I told anyone else,

even my husband.

I wanted to wait for him to come home to tell him.

As a writer covering the intersection of the internet and pop culture, Amanda was probably more

familiar than most with all the subtle, surprising ways technology can embed itself in our lives.

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