Reading to your belly
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Topic: Reading to your belly
Posted By: Mookey
Subject: Reading to your belly
Date Posted: 30 April 2007 at 8:38pm
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Who reads or has read to their belly? My DH read to mine last night as we read somewhere that if you read the same book alot during pregnancy, it will be bubs favourite book when he/she enters the world. We read that it can help with feeding if the book is read to the baby while being fed. Just interested to know if anyone has found this to be true? Did you feel silly reading to your belly. DH was a little bit but got over it and read the whole book and used different voices for different caracters. ------------- http://www.cushytush.co.nz - |
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 30 April 2007 at 8:44pm
| DH talked to "peanut" loads when I was preg, and used to read books to her too. He used to really relax and talk in a steady voice, and this same tone calmed Isla right from the day she was born, so she definatly recognised him. |
Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 30 April 2007 at 8:50pm
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I did when I was pregnant with Maya. I had real issues believing the gremlins were actually going to be born so I didn't read to them, altho I did have a doppler so listening to their heart beats was my 'bonding' time.
We've been told Maya is 'gifted' (I hate that word and it's connotations), I don't know if it's coz she's been read to from an early age (and yes I felt like an idiot reading to my half asleep six week old baby) but it certainly hasn't done her any harm, and now she reads to the babies. -------------  Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: peanut butter
Date Posted: 30 April 2007 at 9:09pm
| I have been playing music to the bump. Not sure about reading the same book over and over. You'd have to really like the book. |
Posted By: WRXnKids
Date Posted: 30 April 2007 at 9:15pm
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I heard about someone who played classical music to their belly all the time because they heard it makes children smart and when the child was about 3 they played it again and he screamed when they asked what was wrong he said it reminds him of the dark
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Posted By: bumblefoot
Date Posted: 30 April 2007 at 11:25pm
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Just out of curiosity, what was the book you have chosen to read to your 'bump'?
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Posted By: Mookey
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 5:53am
DH randomly picked one one out of his Golden Book collection. It was Goldilocks and the 3 bears. ------------- http://www.cushytush.co.nz - |
Posted By: emmaohara
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 7:59am
I think its an awesome idea, then the bubba will definately know mum and dads voice. Might start tonight, good idea! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: miss
Date Posted: 01 May 2007 at 12:33pm
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In the Uk they found that a large number of bab\ies would go to sleep when various soaps like Eastenders came on. They worked out that often this was the down time for the mother - mum would stop, put her feet up and watch the soap, whcih meant that her body was relaxed, plus she would enjoy it. When the babies were born, the theme tunes had the same associations for the babies as when they were in teh womb! -------------  
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