ecomum: music for our small people..

Monday 10 November 2008

music for our small people..

Something that isn't at all new to any of us, or actually may be new to some of us (why am I so presumptuous?), is that babies in tummies react and can be known to be smarter having listened to different music. Whether its classical, folk, classic rock or disco our baby's just love music music. Alpha waves in our little babies brain are actually stimulated while listening to music, this creates a feeling of calm in the little bubba, which I'm sure you'll agree can only be a good thing.

My baby seems to like a variation on all themes.. Thank god. I hope that continues out of the womb, as I, like many of my pals like to have a boogie and I'd definitely want my baby to have a dance too.. I'm currently listening to Fan Death.. http://www.myspace.com/fandeath and there has been a bit of a reaction.. not sure if that was a get it off move or a great lets dance movement.
Another band that seems to be going down quite well is these guys.. http://www.myspace.com/empireofthesunsound the baby seems to love them. Lots of wriggles every time i play Walking On A Dream.

But really, as much as I want my baby to love all the music I love.. its pretty unlikely isn't it? i mean i hated my mums music taste.. but I love it now.. it takes a while perhaps. But we do seem to be breaking down barriers between the generations so maybe the little tyke might, just might, like my music taste.

My boyfriend got some decks the other week and wants us to play breaks to the youngan in my tum so they get used to it!

A friends baby was at a party at the weekend (no smoking inside) and was quite happy being passed around all the characters for a quick cuddle.

Its this sociable element that is just so wonderful. I know that when i was a small one I loved a party. Apart from the one where, according to my mum, i crawled under the table and pulled the plug on the record player.. can't have been a good tune.

But at the end of the day, our little babies just love a good lullaby. I started singing Humpty Dumpty but apparently that isn't a lullaby. Oh right. I didn't really know what one was, but then when i looked into it.. of course I did. What makes my bubba have even more or a wriggle is when i sing Windmill in Old Amsterdam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fg7w49UnGA - have a look at this and it might jog your memory.. My baby has a massive wriggle at the mouse with clogs on bit. Apparently they love to listen to their mummy sing, whether you can sing in tune or not, phew.

I urge you to try it.

x

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: I went to watch 'Walk The Line' when I was 8 months pregnant and my son went ballistic inside me throughout the music, which I continued to listen to through my pregnancy---I've since become more and more addicted to Johnny Cash and he loves it, two and a half years down the line.; 4 December 2008 at 19:08

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Welcome to Ecomum!

Hello!
So, i'm going to be a mother. i can't actually believe i've just written that down. hang on.. i need to read that through.. yep. i'm gonna be a mum. not that this might be very interesting to you. its pretty interesting to me. and the people around me. lots of smiles and tears and shocked faces all round. you see this wasn't a planned person. no. a complete surprise actually. a nice surprise though. when the little pink line came up on the stick.. i mean, the line didn't take 3minutes like the test says. boom, it came up straight away. and i bought the cheapest test you can get. don't believe the hype about getting the best most expensive test for a correct result. if you're pregnant that thing is going to tell you. standard. no messing about. there i was, almost homeless, jobless and penniless with a little person growing inside me... bloody hell. there was no going back on this, no 'choice'. this is how it is. my new life will be as a mum. i'm up for it.

i spent the first few days frantically trawling the internet looking for likeminded people going through a similar experience - to which i never found. so i spent days looking at askbaby.com, newbaby.com, prettybaby.com blah blah blah.. typing in the date of my last period and thinking oh god i've created a saggitarius (theres some history there. i won't go into it). but the whole time thinking that i must be some kind of freak as all the sites i saw seemed to cater to the opposite kind of woman to me. have you seen those sites?? don't get me wrong but its like as soon as women have children they become a pale comparison of their previous self. a parody. a carbon copy - and the fifth carbon copy at that.

it got me thinking. and i thought i'd start up a blog to air my views.. if anyones interested. its for women who love life, like to be green and ethically aware, and have or are having kids. there seems to be some great things out there for dads. that bloke in the sunday times style supplement, hang on let me go get it from the loo... thats it, andrew clover, seems to have fathering off to a tee and he makes it seem pretty funny too. who do us ladies have?? Nigella Lawson, Melanie Sykes, Lisa B. all amazing women but really, really really. what do their lives have in common with ours? they've given birth. tick. they have hormones and have shouted at their friends and partners. tick. they like to be ethically aware. tick. but what we really don't have in common is that they have nannies, pa's, hubbies credit card, beautiful houses, not a money worry in the world. I trawled through the book selection at borders, only to find books by all the above women and many more just like them, trying to give us regular folk advice on bringing up baby. sorry ladies, but i can't and won't be taking advice from you. I want to create my own place. for people like me. people who are living life without a goldcard and with an ethical conscience.

So here it is. Ecomummy. i wanted ecomum but someone else has that name in new zealand, so its ecomummy. its fine. i'm over it.

I'll be posting randomly about life being a pregnant woman, tips on how to cope with it all, whether i find somewhere to live, how to live on a budget and most importantly of all advice from the ecofairies who will be giving their precious knowledge on babies, pregnancy and being green as you go. and other stuff like new bands i'm into.

bye. x