White noise whilst baby is still in utero

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Hi everyone,

I saw a video online a while back of a lady lying down with her white noise machine on her belly for baby. She started this at 15 weeks and did it once a day, in the evening throughout her pregnancy.

It seems like a really nice bonding experience, but I wanted to know if anyone else has done this OR if there are any negatives to doing this? e.g. will it be too loud for the baby?

Any and all advice welcome

Thank you :)

I don’t see the point. The baby gets enough white noise from listening to your bodily functions (heartbeat, blood wishing around etc).

Exactly.

It's absolutely pointless - baby is surrounded by the loud white noise of your body. That's why they like white noise after birth in the first place.

If you really feel like it'll help you bond, well, crack on. But it won't really be doing anything for the baby.

Um, I think she has misunderstood the point of white noise :o

It's meant to mimic the constant noise the baby hears in the womb, like Mousetown says, your heart, digestive system, blood, amniotic fluid etc.

Yeah, I thought the point of white noise for babies was to mimic the environment of the womb.

Never heard of it tbh.
Just talk to your belly.

What's bonding about lying there just, er, being pregnant?

The white noise thing is to reflect the white noise the baby heard in utero, not to get the baby used to white noise!

Load of shite

@BertieBotts

Um, I think she has misunderstood the point of white noise :o

It's meant to mimic the constant noise the baby hears in the womb, like Mousetown says, your heart, digestive system, blood, amniotic fluid etc.

The baby probably can’t even hear the white noise machine over the white noise provided by its mother 😂

Also talking to your baby - I don't get that either. The poor wee things heard my voice all day every day for nine months as I went about normal life.

I think pre-birth "bonding" is heavily overweighted anyway, unless the mother is really struggling and feeling very ambivalent about the pregnancy. Bonding happens after birth when you get to know your baby as a person. I never sang or talked to my belly, because I found it daft and the baby was hearing my voice all the time anyway. I bonded fine.

I have heard that if the babies are exposed at night time to a song in uterus, then their heartrate goes down when they hear it once they are born. It's supposed to help them fall asleep better

Same here @BuffySummersReportingforSanity

My friend's DH used to read her bump a bedtime story every night...I'd die laughing if my husband tried that on me!

@SoMuchForSummerLove

Same here *@BuffySummersReportingforSanity*

My friend's DH used to read her bump a bedtime story every night...I'd die laughing if my husband tried that on me!

God, me too.

I mean, if that's your bag, you certainly aren't doing any harm or anything, but then women end up feeling bad if they aren't singing goopy lullabies to their own bodies, and that's just stupid.

You can't really get to know your specific baby until they're actually born and are a person separate from you. Anything that reminds baby of the womb will soothe a newborn. A fan or a white noise app will do just fine, you don't have to prime with a special song.

I don't think there's anything wrong with making time to do some kind of special bonding ritual with your unborn baby, but white noise does seem a spectacularly strange thing to do.

Play them your favourite song or talk to them or just balance things on your bump, eat loads of ice cream and amuse yourself watching them kick them off.