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A couple of years after I got married, all my friends started having kids, even the ones who didn’t seem super-maternal. Facebook turned into a procession of pregnancy announcement posts, then baby bump shots, then albums of infants in photo-a-month onesies, then videos of first crawls and toddler steps.
I bought cute animal bath towels, decorated onesies with puffy paints and munched pastel-hued M&Ms at occasional baby showers. But most of my friends lived in distant states and cities, so my participation in their pregnancies and new motherhood was predominantly virtual, and Facebook was the preferred platform to announce these milestone life status updates.