Just had a thought about going shooting while pregnant. (I'm currently not pregnant, so this is not personal at the moment.) I remember reading summaries of studies about how babies in the womb react to different kinds of music, and a neat study about Mama reading to baby a certain story repeatedly, then after birth reading the same story and a different one and how the baby reacted to the familiar vs. the unfamiliar stories.
I'm just going from a faulty memory here, but it seems to me that babies in the womb can hear what's going on outside the womb. I clearly remember a personal experience when dealing with a particularly upset toddler and the baby in my womb moved differently than usual. It really was quite different.
So we big people wisely wear hearing protection at the range to avoid hearing damage from those very loud noises, but what about the baby? Has anyone thought about this? I've not seen any sign at the range saying, "If you're pregnant.. . . " like I saw in the orthodontist's x-ray room last month.
Any thoughts?
--Denise, a protective mama.
I'm just going from a faulty memory here, but it seems to me that babies in the womb can hear what's going on outside the womb. I clearly remember a personal experience when dealing with a particularly upset toddler and the baby in my womb moved differently than usual. It really was quite different.
So we big people wisely wear hearing protection at the range to avoid hearing damage from those very loud noises, but what about the baby? Has anyone thought about this? I've not seen any sign at the range saying, "If you're pregnant.. . . " like I saw in the orthodontist's x-ray room last month.
Any thoughts?
--Denise, a protective mama.