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Blogging the Baby

Keeping an Online Journal during Pregnancy and Beyond

By Kelly Burgess

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Lisa McCall, of Audubon, Penn., admits she's addicted – to online journaling, that is. McCall, the proud new mother of Angelina Faith, chronicled her pregnancy with Angelina beginning before she was even conceived. Her online journal, called A Princess and Her Pea, is a complete history of McCall's efforts to have another child after a devastating miscarriage in 2002.

In the process, McCall has been able to keep her extended family informed of every little detail of her pregnancy, has made new friends from around the country and is planning to keep the pregnancy/birth chronicle as a keepsake for Angelina.

"The main reason [the online journal was started] was to have a place to chronicle every little tidbit of my pregnancy," she says. "I wanted to remember it all. I am also a scrap booker, so once this pregnancy journal is finished, I will be printing it off and putting it into my baby's scrapbook for her to look at when she gets older."

A Brief History of Blogging
McCall is one of a growing group of online journal keepers, officially known as Web loggers, or "bloggers" for short. Bloggers chronicle the day's events, both personal and not-so-personal, on Web sites that are updated frequently.

Although pregnancy bloggers, like McCall, are known primarily in the world of other pregnancy blog keepers, other bloggers have emerged on the national scene in political and journalistic circles. Remember Monica Lewinsky? She became a household name because of the efforts of a little-known blogger named Matt Drudge. They're both well-known now. Blogs were also responsible for revealing Trent Lott's past, resulting in his subsequent resignation as Senate Majority Leader.

Even politicians, taking notice of the way Howard Dean was able to jump start his presidential campaign, have started using blogs as a way to get their message out – undiluted by media scrutiny.

But blogs are primarily used by people to keep a running commentary of their day-to-day lives. It's a journal, yes, but one that isn't hidden under the pillow or with a little lock on the pages. In fact, diary writers for sites such as iParenting's Pregnancy Today

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