My Pet Tummy

My tummy is like a brand new pet that I cannot get enough of! She (the creature that lives in my stomach) is old news to my husband. But to me every kick is just as exciting as the last. As time goes by she naturally gets stronger and stronger, I used to love to put the remote on my stomach and watch it rise and fall with my breathing and her heart beat. But now as she has grown bigger and stronger her new trick is kicks that I cannot just feel but see from the outside. For the best viewing potential I run around the house in sports bras and roll down my pants slightly. So if I feel her moving/adjusting I can stop and watch.

I am trying to devise ways to get her to kick more, such as eating(she seems to get more active when there's new tastes in her placenta) and coughing (I think she gets comfortable and my coughing jerks her out of comfortable positions).



So like a new pet you have train them to behave like you want them to.*Since I read that she can hear the outside world in the womb I thought why not let her hear sounds that are educational, soothing, and others that will be familiar to her when she arrives. Instead of selfishly listening to "My music" on my ipod shuffle I thought I should share my tunes and listen to more educational things. So now as I move around the apartment I listen to music on the boombox so she can hear too. Right now we are on a Church music kick. Daddy bought 14 discs of Hymns and 5 discs of Primary songs (Children's Songbook). So I think we will be listenng to those for quite some time. In the car we listen to Baby Mozart as opposed to my old alternative/rock music. After she's born and we get an eventual routine down I think the baby Mozart and another disc of nursery tunes will be part of her every night routine as she's going down for the night.

*Voices- I have noticed that she is able to recognize my voice now, and maybe Mark's(except Mark's voice seems to have the opposite effect of mine, when he talks or touches my belly she stops what's she was doing). I look forward to her birth day for numerous reasons but one being I think it will knock Mark's socks off when she comes out and knows his voice. For instance if she's crying and stops when he talks to her!

*Talking to the belly- When I am home (I don't do this in public) I talk and think out loud. I tell her what I am doing (making lasagna for dinner, "cleaning up after your dad" etc.) I read occasionally to her, but I intend to do much more. On the rare occasion that Mark talks to her, it's all jokes. He tells her what he expects from her and the sport's she'll play.