Couple to Broadcast Birth on Internet

In what is believed to be the first case of online motherhood, a Riverside County couple plan to broadcast the birth of their child on the Internet this month. Brad and Karen Park of Wildomar will use a digital camera and computer laptop to film and send live footage of the birth of their second child to a private site on the World Wide Web to allow family and friends, unable to attend the event, to watch. A small camera, attached to a laptop, will be set in a corner of the delivery room at Sharp HealthCare in Murrieta. Relatives are given the address to a secure Web site, a user name and a password to access the site. The broadcast--one frame snapped every six seconds--will show Karen from the waist up.