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Prenatal Learning

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I’ve been having a number of conversations with people about prenatal learning. One of the consistent pieces of advice has been for me to listen to a piece of music while relaxing throughout my pregnancy. The theory is that that tune will help sooth and relax the baby.  My aunt, Sue, said that she had two different songs that worked with both her girls and my parent’s friend, Carl, said that he read a study about a woman that had a baby that loved the M.A.S.H theme.

I’m feeling a bit of pressure to find a tune to play because when I took a nap today Sydney came and wrapped herself around my belly and proceeded to snore like a freight train. I’m a bit worried that the ‘tune’ that the baby will become accustomed to will be the sound of Sydney’s snores.

I suppose that isn’t so bad, but I’d rather not have Syd sawing her logs directly in Baby Miller’s face.

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14 Weeks

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Barry and I took some pictures to document my growing belly and in the middle of me taking his belly shot (why not, right?) Sydney strolled up in the background and started peeing. Needless to say, Barry was quite upset that Syd had ruined his photo shoot. I guess she thought it weird that he was getting pictures of his tummy taken when clearly mine is the one that has sprouted a full-time Thanksgiving gut.

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Get Some Sleep

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We’ve been getting lots of different advice now that we’re expectant parents. One thing that has been consistent has been people telling us to sleep now because you won’t get to once the baby arrives.

I understand the sentiment because babies have their own schedules, new parents are nervous, midnight feedings, the list goes on and on. Here’s my concern:

We’ve got a dog that snores as if she’s a 350 pound man. She also takes up no less than 1/3 of the bed. Our dog is already taking away from our sleep and she doesn’t even need us to hold her or feed her in the midnight hours.

What  to do?