What Unborn Babies Hate in the Belly?
Mostly all articles about pregnancy accentuate your feelings, your sensations, and your preferences. And there is limited information about your unborn baby’s feelings, sensations, and preferences. What are the preferences of your small bundle, curled or cuddled up inside you? What does she/he love and what does she/he hate? What causes her/him to feel confusion and embarrassment and what causes her/him to feel delighted? What startles her/him and what soothes her/him? Just have a quick glimpse of this article, designed for revealing the truth about those things your small bundle hates while living inside and, please, avoid or stop doing them.
1. When mom soaks the bump in warm water
The warm bath during pregnancy may be perfect for you, but it is highly recommended that hot baths, hot tubs, sauna, and jacuzzi are to be avoided during pregnancy. Therefore, every time you would like to soak in warm water, make sure that the water temperature is not too high. The safe temperature for your bathing is 37oC (98 oF). When you soak your bump in warmer water, it will stress your unborn little one out because you decrease blood flow that is going through the placenta and umbilical cord (hot water alters the placental blood flow and umbilical blood flow).
2. When mom tosses, turns, and rolls around in bed
When mom tosses, turns, and rolls around in bed trying to find the perfect sleep position, or simply loves to reposition herself twelve times while relaxing in bed, it is stressful for the little one living inside. Constant tossing, turning, and rolling ‘TURNS’ your small bundle of joy into small bundle of nerves. When you lay in bed amongst the wonderful pastel–colored pillows, fighting that halfway state between your glimmering dreams and your reality, and suddenly jump up to rearrange your seven pastel–colored pillows several times around you, your little one, curled inside, may have limited space to move around or you may disrupt her sleep. The same thing happens if you do love to hug your pillows tightly, to cuddle up close to three of them., or when you are trying to lay on your right side, then left, then back to right, then back to the left and suddenly jump up, kick the blankets to the edge of the bed and then discover that you are freezing so you pull them back up to your shoulders and burrow. When you suddenly jump on your legs because there is no comfortable position for you to sleep, but still, you feel the soft silk material of your sheets and the heavenly sensation of your warm feet wrapped in your blankets. So, you roll over into a perfect pastel–colored warm cocoon. But falling asleep again is difficult. Your sleeping position is uncomfortable because of your gorgeously hugged (by your hand) big baby bump. Just ten more minutes, it is not so long, you beg your body to try to feel comfortable in this sleeping position. But it turns again uncomfortable in three minutes and you get up to sit on the bed.
3. When mom cannot fall asleep because of extreme nervous tension
You are extremely tired. It was not your day. You experienced the nervous break–down. Now you are staring at the clock and wondering how it became 01:00 A.M. so quickly and why you are so tired. You mentally retrace all your steps and all the situations you were involved in throughout the day. Did you have a cup of warming sweet cappuccino with almond slices later than you should have? Did she have an argument yesterday in the morning? It makes you excessively exhausted and extremely nervous, you can’t sleep. Your aching sadness follows you into your dreams. Finally, you get up out of the bed so emotionally overwhelmed as if the situation has just happened and you are still involved in. Nervous tension, overwhelming frustration, capturing despair, whatever you feel, disrupts your sleep and disrupts the sleep patterns of your small bundle. Your body produces a steroid hormone Cortisol which is the body’s response to stress and exhaustion. The high levels of Cortisol are dangerous for your little one cuddled inside as they are closely associated with preeclampsia (pregnancy–induced hypertension), fetal growth retardation, and premature birth.
4. When mom is anxious, confused, nervous, or depressed
When you are struggling with highly distressing emotions, such as overwhelming anger, extreme frustration, utter despair, or profound sorrow, your small bundle is exposed to your stress hormones as early as she is seventeen weeks after conception. Are you wondering how it is possible? While experiencing emotional exasperation, your body produces a steroid hormone Cortisol. Your growing fetus is exposed to cortisol in your blood and starting from 17 gestational weeks the cortisol can be found in the amniotic fluid which surrounds your small bundle inside. Experiencing all these negative emotions constantly while pregnant causes additional producing of Cortisol and androgens which induce anxiety. This leads to cognitive changes, both yours and your little one. The extreme prenatal stress can lead to premature labor, premature birth and can also increase the risk of your small bundle being born with asthma or allergies.
5. When mom constantly fondles, touches, or hugs her belly with pressure
During the last months of pregnancy, the tiny bundle becomes small bundle and starts not just practicing those tiny ballet movements repositioning herself inside by cuddling up, kicking, stretching, twisting, turning, wiggling, but expressing herself with more power. Feeling how your baby cuddles up, twists, turns, stretches and kicks inside for the very first time will be one of the most emotional–inspiring, most beautiful, most unforgettable moment. The little kicks were adorable and unique, and now they are sometimes also divine but sometimes they are painful enough. If you noticed that when you are hugging your bump around, or press it with your wrists, or run your fingertips over it and your little one repositions herself several times, do not do it. Because your small bundle doesn’t like being touched all the time. Sometimes she/he loves to play with you and even anticipates your touch in any form: when you run a finger on your belly, while lying on your bed, when you cuddle up with your belly to your beloved, when you sit and delicately fondle your belly, when you embrace your belly with your hands or when your beloved embraces your belly and fondles it accurately, but sometimes you will be given a powerful response from inside. If your baby kicks and you powerfully push-back, the baby may move away and stick out her arm, her leg, or change quickly the curling position inside. Or if your little one sleeps inside, and you are constantly touching your bump, she or he won’t be happy to awake and to fall asleep twelve times a day.