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The wife of Twitter CEO Evan Williams has opened up the delivery room door to the world and is posting updates to Twitter while she goes through child labor.

“Dear Twitter, My water broke. It wasn’t like Charlotte in Sex and the City,” Sara Williams wrote at about midnight ET on Tuesday. “Now, timing contractions on an iPhone app.”

She hasn’t reined in the humor even as she says her contractions have become painful. One of her most recent updates, at about 4:30 a.m., said “Epidural, yes please.”

More than 14,000 people are following Williams’ childbirth through the popular micro-blogging site. Her posts are also searchable online and can be seen by the public.

The real-time drama of Sara Williams’ labor is calling attention to what seems to be a growing trend of pregnant moms and dads posting online about their pregnancies from conception to childbirth. They’re now including many details that once would have seemed too private to share with the world.

“We were on our iPhone and Blackberry right up until the point when my wife started pushing, and then we had to put those phones down,” said Kyle Monson, a new dad in New York City.

Monson posted updates about his wife’s labor to Twitter by using code words only his friends could understand. Instead of posting “my wife just gave birth,” for instance, he wrote, “Operation Bumblebee complete! Ada Elizabeth is 7lbs, 2oz, and is very happy to be here.”

Ada, who is the couple’s first child, was born on August 5.

Monson has nearly 800 Twitter followers and didn’t want everyone in the world to know about the “blood and gore” of the birthing process.

Most of the couple’s friends and family live further west, he said, so the online networks helped them keep their loved ones updated.

The senior editor at PCMag.com said his wife was sending text messages to people throughout her 10-hour labor.

“She had an epidural so it was actually pretty easy for her,” he said.

Some moms and dads are applauding Sara Williams for tweeting during childbirth, saying she’s pulling back the cloak on the mystical process that scares many pregnant women.

Debora Robertson, group manager of the Expectant Mother’s Guide, said she wouldn’t feel comfortable sharing so much information about childbirth on Twitter, but the exercise could be helpful for pregnant women.

“I think it’s great that she [Sara Williams] can do that with family and friends, and I would imagine a lot of first time moms have curiosity,” she said. “They’re peeking into the delivery rooms.”

Monson also said Twitter posts from the delivery room can be informative.

“Going into it I had a lot of questions because no one really writes about this stuff” online, he said.

Many new sites are promoting “mom-to-mom wisdom” as a way for expecting parents to become educated about childbirth, said Dina Freeman, spokeswoman for the Baby Center, an online resource for moms.

Freeman said one of her friends tweeted through childbirth. She had mixed feelings about the posts.

“Although I was happy for the updates, I was like, ‘Are you sure you want that on Twitter?’”

Aside from Twitter posts, moms are joining mom-specific social networks to get important questions answered, said Freeman, who manages the Baby Center’s Facebook page. She said the wisdom of the crowd is useful, but sometimes she recommends pregnant women and new moms see physicians for potentially serious health issues.

Moms are finding other ways to share their pregnancies online, too.

Video cameras appear to have pushed their way into delivery rooms. A quick search on YouTube found more than 3,600 videos matching “childbirth.”

And a product called the Kickbee is a belt that wraps around a pregnant woman’s stomach and automatically posts to a Twitter feed when the baby kicks.

Some people say too much technology in the delivery room is a bad thing.

“I think it’s terrible,” Dr. Renana Brooks, a psychologist, told the Baltimore Sun in reference to people who post on Twitter during childbirth. “One of the few rituals we have, in terms of giving each other undivided attention, is that time in a delivery room. To be spending time writing to someone else destroys the whole ritual.

“That’s like Twittering on your wedding night. You can blog about it afterward.”

Others will be glued to Sara Williams’ Twitter feed, waiting to see what sort of witty comment she will post when the child is born.

Her latest post, before 1:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, said, “The heartbeat monitor soothes the silence of a room that will shortly be anything but silent.”