New York Times journalist Amanda Hess became pregnant when she was approaching 35. Perhaps because she has specialized professionally in studying new technologies—especially those derived from the internet—the first thing Hess did was to announce that she was pregnant to the phone application that monitored her menstrual cycles. This was the beginning of a very close relationship between the journalist's mobile phone and the gestation of the child, which unexpectedly became complicated from the seventh month onwards. Five years after giving birth, Amanda Hess published Second Life (now in Catalan at Saldonar, translated by Elena Ordeig), where she combines her personal testimony with the analysis of fertility apps, prenatal genetic tests, gender reveal videos, freebirth influencers and Facebook groups and forums about rare diseases. The author connects with ARA via video call from the apartment in New York where she lives with her husband and their two children. She responds with precision and without sparing details, despite addressing delicate topics.