I know how women’s insides sound like…



A friend of mine is pregnant, and she got an audio recording of the insides of a pregnant woman. This recording was done in Australia by some new age doctor who believes that this new technique helps babies go to sleep faster. “When the baby is born”, she said “I will play this CD to relax him”. He even recorded music “heard from within”, which is admittedly disturbing (if not downright creepy) when it figures that fetuses eavesdrop on grown ups “all the time” (gasp).

Some of you perhaps share my shock/horror from the reflection on how this ludicrous recording was possibly taken. On the sadistic doctor who attempted this, and the mother/martyr who didn’t have a chance but to give herself up for science, a selfless creature who’d risk life and limb to deliver this… this “message from the uterus” to the world. Or perhaps this doctor only used a stethoscope and I am the one with the wicked dirty mind to think such monstrosities!

If you must know, your insides sound like a car rolling wildly on a bumpy round.
And babies don’t like silence. “You should always have background noise in the house”, or if you are fortunate and have the actual soundtrack at hand, play it “it relaxes him!” (she emoted).

At what stage of development I wonder do we start appreciating silence? Hell, even fighting for it, posting Do-Not-Disturb signs, giving strangers dirty looks…

But honestly, the roar of fast moving cars still soothes me. It relaxes me and helps me go to sleep faster.

I don’t know, I might go take a ride in the bus later today, ask the driver to go fast, close my eyes and dissolve in a slumber. Or shall I ask my friend for the audio?

“Silence is golden” but I sill miss my mother!