Paul Lorente decided to keep his friends and relatives updated on his wife’s labour by live tweeting the event.
Paul updated his Twitter followers during his wife Alana’s 24 hour labour last week.
Alana gave birth to a baby girl called Eva Grace in Lancashire in the UK.
Paul posted all his tweets with the hashtag #PrincessBatman, which was the nickname the couple had given Alana’s bump after they discovered that their child has Down Syndrome.
“We called her Princess Batman because we wanted her real name to be a surprise and because we knew that she had Down’s syndrome, I didn't want people thinking of her as the ‘Down’s syndrome baby’. I thought she'd prefer a cool alter ego. I had thought that it would be a good idea but I didn't think it would be quite that popular.”
Paul told his followers every detail of his wife’s labour including how many centimetres his wife was dilated.
Mr. Lorente explained that tweeting his wife’s labour was the best way of keeping his big family updated on about what was going on.
"Both me and my wife have big families. We both have lots of friends and we both have an extended church family. We'd told them all that Alana was being induced and everyone said they wanted updates. I just thought that setting up a Twitter account would be the easiest way to do it so that way people could just click the link and see where we were up to without inundating us with phone calls and text messages.”
