15 Minutes of Fame

When I was pregnant, I frequently went on the different baby sites such as parents.com, americanbaby.com, and babycenter.com to look up different pregnancy information. I also joined a forum on americanbaby.com for women who were also expecting in October 2009. It was a nice forum with a bunch of women discussing different things happening at different points in the pregnancy. I used the forum more for the reading, but some women got really into it. Some women just shared too too much. In reading some of the stuff, I definitely found myself holding my fingers back from typing a response. (The web equivalent of biting your tongue).

After the babies were born in October, many women posted their birth story. So, I decided "why not?" A week after Samantha was born, I posted Samantha's birth story on americanbaby.com. I posted it very quickly without regard to grammar, without proofreading it, and didn't think anything of it. A week later, I got an email from the Features Editor of American Baby Magazine. She said that she was writing an article for American Baby Magazine, read my birth story, and asked if I would be interested in being featured in the article. The article appeared in the January 2010 edition of the magazine, page 19. It had my name on it with the birth story and a picture of Samantha and I when she was 3 weeks old. We are going to put the article with the magazine cover in a shadow box and hang it in Samantha's room.


So, that is our 15 minutes of fame. I told some of my friends about it and showed them the article. Of course, they thought it was cool. However, the coolest was when random aquaintances or Keith's friends who he did not tell saw the article and mentioned something to him or me.It would be great if I could write for a magazine monthly like that, but there are thousands of women out there with the same thought. Plus, it is hard enough for me to find the time to add to the blog. How would I find the time to really write? I guess if I was getting paid for it, I would find the time.