Military families often use Skype video and audio to stay in touch.

But it will be hard to top Linda Lawrence's story of giving birth in Camden, N.J., while her husband Andrew, an Army medic, watched over Skype video as he awaited deployment to Iraq at Fort Lewis, Wash.

On the Friday before Mother's Day, the Courier Post reported: "Linda gave birth to Brayden Andrew Lawrence, with her mother and best friend in the room, and her husband watching via a webcam sitting on a table to her left."

"It was great. It was the next best thing to having him in the room," Linda Lawrence said, speaking of her husband.

"To me, it was just amazing how everything worked," Andrew Lawrence said. "The experience was wonderful. I saw everything, heard every sound, saw the baby come out."

Brayden was the couple's third son, their first covered on Skype.