Normally Jason and I don’t get to fall asleep together as I get back from work rather later than he likes to stay up.  But last night when I got home, guess who was still up and ready for a little fetal bonding time?

It was really nice!

We climbed into bed with some annotated Edger Allen Poe and got halfway through ‘The Gold Bug’; which I’d never had the chance to read before.

I’m hoping Jason’s still awake tonight so I can get to the end of the story, and I’m excited to start another one.

The baby is stuck with me 24-7. He or she can’t get away from me and the sound of my voice.  The baby has no choice but to know me and my voice; Jason needs a little bonding time too!

I for one think it’s one of the sweetest things a father-to-be can do to prove how much he’s into his child; you rock Jason!

That’s being hands on!  That’s how you know your husband is going to be a real daddy!

I admit I might have been a little worried about Jason’s bonding with the baby when I first got pregnant, but once my belly popped he connected a lot faster.

It was more real to him.  Also, I think it’s possible I may have inadvertently caused him not to want to bond with the baby. Not before the fourth month for fear of miscarriage.

I wonder if it’d be as hard for him to lose the baby as it would be for me.  And now that the danger of miscarriage is behind us, he doesn’t have to be so guarded.

I’m wondering though if there’s a difference between the baby being able to hear and the baby being able to recognize a voice.  I’ve been told a baby can hear as early as 18 weeks, but a baby isn’t supposed to have a reaction to your voice until about 25 weeks.

Though so far I don’t know how I’d know it, my kid hasn’t given me any sign or signal that he/she is responding to the sound of my voice.

The only thing my baby does that’s predictable is swim like crazy when I lay down on my left side.  That and refusing to do it whenever Jason puts his hand on my stomach to have a feel.

Maybe it’s just a tad too early to tell.

I can’t wait.