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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The intimate and extremely personal experience of bringing a child into this world? There’s an app for that…and forums…and so much advice…that contradicts other advice…and a surprising amount of eugenics. Guest: Amanda Hess, critic at the New York Times and author of the book “Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age.” Want more What Next TBD? Subscribe to Slate Plus to access ad-free listening to the whole What Next family and all your favorite Slate podcasts. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts by clicking “Try Free” at the top of our show page. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash UK slash AI for people. When she was seven months pregnant, Amanda Hess went to the doctor for a regular sonogram.

0:40.9

And so, you know, I take my shirt off. I get slathered with the gel and stuff. And the technician

0:47.4

does this ultrasound that I've had, you know, at this point many times during my pregnancy.

0:52.2

But then it just doesn't stop.

0:55.2

It was the summer of 2020, and COVID protocols meant that Amanda couldn't have anyone with her.

1:00.8

She was alone.

1:02.2

She leaves to go get the doctor, but then she comes back alone and continues to capture images.

1:10.1

And at a certain point, I could tell that something was wrong.

1:15.2

The technician didn't say much, just that the baby was sticking his tongue out. And at that

1:20.1

moment, like, the thing I remember most, the feeling I remember most was just like desperately, desperately wanting my phone.

1:30.4

It wasn't like, I wish my husband was here.

1:33.8

It was like, I wish that my phone was not six feet away.

1:36.9

I wish it was in my hand so that while she was doing this,

1:39.9

I could Google, stuck out tongue, ultrasound, seven months, whatever, and just to assure myself that whatever it was, was going to be okay.

1:54.4

Amanda's a critic for the New York Times who writes a lot about culture.

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