Noise

[Wildwaterfalls]

Hello

Have really embraced the Olympics and been to quite a few events, some of which very noisy! The baby has responded by kicking lots!

Now I have started worrying (on no scientific basis whatsoever) that the baby will have been somehow negatively affected by all this loud noise. Silly probably, but has anyone else wondered about this?

Am 35 weeks by the way..

Ha, well if my two are anything to go by....NO!
I went to one music festival whilst pregnant with DD1 and 2 whilst pregnant with DD2 and they are both fine. And I had my maternity bag packed with all three as I was 8.5, 7.5 and 8.5 months gone respectivelly.
They both love listening to music now, so maybe yours will end up playing to huge crowds to emulate their first sounds???

Thanks CW, that made me feel a lot better (especially like the bit about getting a crowd in to cheer for the baby )!

I think I am entering a phase of (tiredness-induced) slightly irrational worries...

Hi, I was actually panicking about this in advance of going to the Olympics so checked it with my obstetrician. He said it was not a problem as the noise is damped down by all the tissue and fluid surrounding the baby.

I always assumed that what the baby can hear is a bit like what we can hear if we are underwater... so yes you can hear sounds but they are muffled.

My baby likes loud noises too. He kicked strongly all the way through the Batman film (three hours!) because the sound track was so loud. That was a few weeks ago and I'm only about 24 weeks now. He responds to his dad's voice as well which is sweet.

My irrational worry was whether the baby could be moving too much. The midwife said no!

Thanks all. Feeling reassured about it all now . The underwater thing makes sense!

What a strange and different experience the world will be for the baby once he or she has arrived, with all the sounds and sights!

Probably better baby hears something! If all was total peace and quiet it wouldn't half be a shock coming into the world and all it's normal noises.

FWIW, the baby hasn't had one second of silence in all it's little life in the womb - with heartbeat, mummmies voice (and others), digestion gurgles going on right by the ears etc etc, quiet is the last thing a baby expects.

OK so you were thinking more about really loud noises, but again it is only a matter of scale, will be muffled and baby feels totally safe in there so won't have given it a second thought.

We went to live rock band show when ds was 4 weeks old, we were near the front and ds slept through the whole thing. (wasn't so loud we couldn't converse - but hardly quiet!)