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In Amanda Hess' new book, Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age, she explores the many apps, megamaternity brands, high-tech baby gear, and social media subcultures that have infiltrated in the process of having a baby in modern-day America. OTM producer and new parent Molly Rosen speaks with Hess about how new technologies have transformed the experience of parenthood and what this signals about the future.
Further reading:
- Second Life: Having a Child in the Digital Age, by Amanda Hess
- My Son Has a Rare Syndrome. So I Turned to the Internet., by Amanda Hess
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