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Listening to your baby in utero and outside utero
| Posted on June 26, 2014 at 2:28 AM |
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‘Seek
first to understand, then to be understood’- Stephen & Cory This statement is all about listening to each other
effectively so needs are met on either side. This can be established between
parent and child even before the child has been born, and for either parent
even if it is the mother who is carrying the baby in utero for nine months, the
role of the father is as important in listening to the baby’s needs as well as
the mother. Some people may seem to be more tuned into their
unborn baby and its not because they are any different to anyone else but have
become more open and conscious to listening to their child both in the physical
and non physical sense. Some mothers who are not relaxed and lead a busy life sometimes
need reassurance that they may not have felt their baby kick over a period of
time and as a Midwife I would explain to them to rest and relax quietly, drink
some cold water and be come aware of their baby’s movements and obviously seek
further advice if that is not the case. When all is fine and the baby has been
felt, calmness and confidence is restored. Mothers can become more conscious of their needs
and their baby’s needs by learning to breathe, find ways to relax that they are
comfortable with, be calm within themselves and eventually listen to their baby
on a deeper level as a baby cannot be heard verbally. Doing this during
pregnancy will help them approach labour with ease, calmness and more
confidence and help achieve the birth
they both wish for.
Once the baby is born, the baby communicates through
crying which is verbal communication and non verbals by facial expressions,
body movements, a variety of reasons why a baby may cry.
If Mothers and Fathers listen and are aware of their
baby cue’s and behaviour they can
respond to their baby' s needs accordingly.
Happy calm parents = Happy calm baby!
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