When Judy Casperson’s newborn son entered the world at 3:23 a.m. Friday, not only did the nine people in the Erlanger hospital delivery room witness the birth, so did her husband, Maj. Sean Casperson, thousands miles away in Iraq.

At Erlanger’s downtown campus, tech workers had set up a laptop using the hospital’s wireless high-speed Internet to connect the first-time father to his wife via Web camera.

“I was determined to have this,” said Mrs. Casperson, 38. “The hospital did everything in their power to get it up for me and was very accommodating. Everybody has just been so wonderful.”

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