Baby Noises

We took R to our most recent appointment at the birth center, which was not something we were really planning on doing, but in retrospect, it was an *AWESOME* idea, especially now that the pregnancy is well-established.

She loved looking at the pictures on the wall-- there are several posters of the pregnant lady cut in half-- you know, the kind where you can see how big the baby is at different points in the pregnancy, as well as how squished all of the internal organs are (it's really striking, the difference pre-pregnancy and at 8-9 months pregnant). Several times she informed the midwife that there was a baby up there.

But the best part was when the midwife listened to the baby's heartbeat through the doppler. It crackled a lot at first as she was trying to get the right spot. The baby was moving around a lot and as soon as we heard the heartbeat, it would pull away again and we would hear the static. Whenever we heard a little bit of the heartbeat we would tell R, "do you hear the baby?" "That's the baby's heart beating!" etc.

Well, in the car on the way home from the office, we were talking with R about meeting the midwife and listening to the baby. She called the doppler the midwife's "secret." We asked her what the baby's heartbeat sounded like and she goes "kkkrrrrcchhh!" A fairly good imitation of the crackly static sound the monitor made for the most part. Since then on more than one occasion we have heard her say things like, "baby goes kkkrrrrcchhh!" Quite funny.