Baby Grapevine is a web and telephony-based birth announcement service which allows family and friends that have been pre-registered on the system’s website, to automatically be kept informed of events by text messages and voicemail thereby reducing the stress on the parents. As well as being of enormous help to the parents, it also greatly reduces the workload of the nursing staff who will now, no longer have to take messages and answer countless questions about the birth. The service also includes an online album and scrapbook of baby that can be built up from birth.