BRINGING UP BABY.

When Jean-Marie Maier, of Sunrise, Florida, suspected that she was pregnant with her first child, she and her husband, Ken, did what many modern parents do: they bought a home pregnancy test, and, after celebrating the positive result, started a blog. Because they were seized by the myopia of impending parenthood, and because they had time on their hands (both had recently been laid off from corporate jobs), they built an astonishingly comprehensive site, where the casual browser can now hear baby Kate cry and watch a video of her cooing on the changing table. The baby is chubby and adorable, and the changing table is a Babi Italia Natural Carlisle, which retails for ...