Things Baby Likes

So here's a tally of the things baby seems to like, or at least that's how I'm interpreting it when she starts wiggling and bumping around in there. It could mean the very opposite, but we're not really at a point where I can ask her, so I'll go with 'she likes it.'


Anyway, so far we have:


1. Ash Wednesday service at the Episcopal church

2. When Mom reads Hebrew out loud

3. Loud organ music at church

4. Mom's bedtime (she always acts nutty as soon as I lie down). This also includes the shavasana (or relaxation) time of yoga, where I'm also lying still on my side. It's actually quite amusing to try to relax deeply when you have a party going on in your womb.

5. Mom's bath time (is it the warmth??)

6. Mom in any reclining position (though I'm pretty sure she doesn't like this and is fighting against the almost certain collapse of her space, due to gravity)

7. Any communal reading, especially the Lord's Prayer. My small group closes each week with us all saying this together, and as they have discovered, she almost invariably moves around while we do. Someone posited that she likes the cadence, and that sounds pretty convincing to me.

8. When Dad talks to her. He almost got kicked in the face one morning when we were in Richmond. I'm hoping she's learned to recognize his voice, even though he hasn't been around all the time. We do put him on speakerphone to say goodnight to her sometimes, and he talks to "the belly" a lot when we are together, so let's hope! We'll have to play catch-up now that he's going to be home full-time...

I'll keep you updated, but that's what I can think of for now!