Labor buddies

[kerbear]

Have we established labor buddies? If not, do we want to? (A Labor buddy is someone you're in contact with periodically during your labor so that they can post updates on your progress to the group)

[LadyNymeria]

I know there was some interest in labor buddies in a randoms thread recently. I would be happy to be someone's buddy to provide updates to the group on their behalf, but when it's my turn to go I'm probably just as likely to jump on Tapatalk to update you ladies myself as I am to text someone.

[fem]

Aug 23, 2016 8:34:56 GMT -5 LadyNymeria said:

I know there was some interest in labor buddies in a randoms thread recently. I would be happy to be someone's buddy to provide updates to the group on their behalf, but when it's my turn to go I'm probably just as likely to jump on Tapatalk to update you ladies myself as I am to text someone.

+1 to this. 

[merryrissmas]

Aug 23, 2016 8:59:00 GMT -5 fem said:

Aug 23, 2016 8:34:56 GMT -5 LadyNymeria said:

I know there was some interest in labor buddies in a randoms thread recently. I would be happy to be someone's buddy to provide updates to the group on their behalf, but when it's my turn to go I'm probably just as likely to jump on Tapatalk to update you ladies myself as I am to text someone.

+1 to this. 

Agreed!

[hurricanerek]

I agree. I always assumed that if I needed someone to update the group, olive would do it since our first kids are in the same BMB.

[theotherjacobsons]

We had this in my last BMB and I ended up posting on my own anyway. I didn't really know my person and it was my news damit

[thiscoffeechick]

I don't know that I'm reg enough to participate in Labor Buddies but wanted to throw something out there for Ladies who think they'd be updating Tapatalk themselves.
I had a VERY long first labor. I began a labor thread in a secret FB group I'm in made up of 14 women from my first BMB and then was too distracted to update. I literally said at 5 pm Monday "I guess this is it" then at 9 am Tuesday "I'm 2 cm, they think baby will be born tonight!" And then didn't update in the next 20 hours until he was born nor in the 8 or so hours after.
They were beside themselves worried. I didn't mean to leave them hanging I was just concentrating on getting the baby out and then was so fatigued once he was born, just forgot to update.
With this one, I will start an "I'm in labor" thread (in that FB group) and then add one lady's phone number to DH's group text list for sending labor updates so SHE can update our FB group.
Just wanted to throw some perspective out there. You may be glued to your phone while in labor, you may not. But labor buddies are a nice way of making sure no one is left hanging IMHO.

[serendipity731]

I'm down, but some of y'all have me thinkin that I'd just update on my own too. I know, that's no help for the decision lol

[sodapop]

I'm ok either way. I would need someone with What's app or someone in Canada though...

[kerbear]

I don't care either way. Labor buddies were a huge thing in my other group so I just wanted to start the convo. I don't think there's anything wrong at all if you want to update via tapatalk on your own. For me, I wanted to try and focus on myself and my DH and the task at hand so I had DH handle all updates to friends/family/BMB last time.

[cbrandt1]

I had a similar experience to thiscoffeechick, only mine all went super fast! And I was so tired afterwards that I never even posted a birth story because it was like 3 days later before I had thought about it. I assume it will be similar this time as well.

[mrsjene]

Aug 24, 2016 21:12:53 GMT -5 pippacricket said:

I'm down for whatever.

But just in case we decide yes to buddies, I call dibs on mrsjene .

#laborbuddies4lyfe