Is it bad that I don't talk to my bump??

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I've had so many people ask me "Have you started talking to her yet? Have you read her any books? She'll get to know your voices!" and my first reaction is to kind of cringe... I know she can hear me and hubby in there but it's not like she can understand a word we're saying plus she'll learn our voices just from us having normal conversations, right? I'll definitely be talking and reading to her when she's here of course.

Am I a horrible person for thinking it's silly?

I didn't do it. The occasional "go to sleep fidget" when he or she wanted to kick all night but that was it. Dh put his hand on me to feel kicks now and then, but that was it.
I never wanted to make a big thing about being pregnant tbh

No I don’t and I’m on number 5. I will say a good morning or a quick hello when I first feel it moving that day on occasion. OH doesn’t talk either but he does play the guitar specifically for the bumps benefit. He did it to our older child too when I was pregnant with her. He says he wants him playing guitar to be soothing to baby so it doesn’t disturb them when they’re here as he likes to play a lot. Tbh though I suspect that’s said to make me tolerate it because sitting around listening to him play endlessly, nodding along, fawning over him and clapping like a seal is not my thing in the slightest so I always bugger off when he picks it up 😂

Don't feel bad at all. I talked to my bump through my 'thoughts' rather than out loud, sending her love etc. I would absolutely cringe when other people would talk to my bump... Some of us are just not the touchy-feely types!

Nope. I figured baby would have had months of hearing my voice through normal conversations.

Oh OP, I found it all cringe too!

DS1 was a surprise and we were too busy finding a house to buy and get sorted for life as a couple to specifically chat. Come babies 2 and 3 we were so busy with everything else the pregnancies passed me by!

All three are clever and secure, we have amazing bonds and get on brilliantly (even with the teenagers!) It really doesn’t matter!

Congratulations on your little one.