of thousands of readers online. >> i could have been responsible for her drowning. >> reporter: her article about the moment she left her 3-year-old daughter alone in the bath while she went to check an e-mail has hit a nerve. >> i put her in the tub, started to fill it up. went to find my son to put him in the shower. saw the ipad, a ding, e-mail from a friend. i felt compelled to respond to it. i left her alone in the tub about two minutes. >> reporter: by the time she got back to the bathroom, ruby had fallen fast asleep against the side of the tub. >> i felt like i couldn't breathe. if i had taken the time to answer one more e-mail or squeeze in one more thing, it really did haunt me to think of what could have happened. >> reporter: luckily ruby was just fine, but she says it was a wake-up call. she's pregnant with her third child. she says that she has become too distracted by social media and multitasking in general. >> how many e-mails can i send? can i get a shower, what else can i get done. almost incapable of single