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Former Marine Watches Baby's Birth Via Skype And iPhone (Video)

By Beth Ford Roth / Home Post Blogger
Published November 7, 2012 at 11:01 AM PST
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Former Marine James Robbins was in Kuwait for his job with the Department of Defense when his wife went into labor back in the states. A delivery room nurse helped record the baby's birth with an iPhone, and dad was able to watch the miracle happen from his computer thousands of miles away.

Video courtesy of WCCO-TV in Minnesota.

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Blogger Beth Ford Roth was born into a military family and has covered issues important to service members and their loved ones for many years. She has worked as a broadcast journalist in both commercial television and public radio.
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