I am 7 months pregnant and I live in San Antonio and there is a tornado with very bad thundering and severe winds at this moment.Is it possible for my unborn child to be scared of the thunder?
2007-04-24 18:48:10 · 11 answers · asked by Mommy 2 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
I am on the computer during the tornato because my brother said he has a high class computer and that nothing will happen.
2007-04-24 18:55:00 · update #1
Not normally, but I had some really loud noises make my baby jump before. It's not scared of thunder... any loud noise could startle it.. no worries!
2007-04-24 19:12:51 · answer #1 · answered by JenB 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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She kept an uncovered candy dish on her coffee table with candy in it. The dog was forbidden to eat the candy. When she was in the room observing the dog he did not even appear to notice the candy. One day while she was in her dinning room she happened to look in a mirror and could see her dog in the living room. He did not know he was being watched. For several minutes he was sitting in front of the candy bowl staring at the candy. Finally he reached in and took one. He placed it on the table and stared at it, he woofed at it. He stared some more, licked his chops and PUT IT BACK in the bowl and walked away. Did he want the candy, oh yeah. Did he eat it? Nope. They can be trained that well but most, I'll admit, are not trained that well. When I was a young boy, maybe 5 years old. We had a german shepherd. He was very well trained also. My mom could leave food unattended on the table, no problem. She would open the oven door and set a pan roast beef or roast chicken on the door to cool. No problem. He would not touch it, watched or not. But butter? Whole other story. You leave a stick of butter anywhere he could reach and it was gone. He was a large shepherd so there were not many places he could not reach. Really, I think the number of dogs trained to the point they will leave food alone when not being supervised is very small indeed.
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Now if we are talking obedience training, not food grubbing, that is a different story. Way back when I was first learning obedience training one of the final exercises was to put our dogs in a down/stay and not only leave the room but leave the building for 15 minutes. The only person that stayed was our trainer, not the owners. Most of the dogs in my class did not break their stay, which would be an automatic fail. I'm happy to report my dog was one of the ones that passed.
2016-07-18 08:33:18 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never heard of any electronic thing that cannot be affected by lightening. I would sign off, if I were you.
Your body produces a chemical for every thought you have. So if you are nervous, those same chemicals will go through your baby. The effect won't be "fear" as we experience it, but it will speed up your baby's heart and other effects. IF you are fearful. If you aren't, then what ever feelings you do have will produce the chemicals for those emotions and thoughts, and the baby will experience those.
For you, read: "Your Body Believes Every Word You Say" the language of the Body/Mind Connection, by Barbra Hoberman Levine. It's just one of many on the subject, but it doesn't cover the baby. For that, you just need to know that the two of you share everything until birth.
I'm in Houston, I guess the storm will be here soon. It's quiet enough to hear a pin drop here...for now...
I'll be thinking of you.
2007-04-24 19:06:02 · answer #3 · answered by Jeanne B 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good research question. On the one hand, there is a possibility that a child in the womb gets accustomed to outside sounds, there is also a possibility that your "own shock" may carry over to the unborn child. Then there is the question of hereditary characteristics and other imponderables. Could depend on situation specifics of the individual case, intensity of thundering, proximity of/to the lightning, etc. Hence, this is definitely a subject worthy of research over sample sets of population, in various parts of the globe.
2007-04-24 19:11:22 · answer #4 · answered by Sam 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would have to be very loud to even startle the baby. It wouldn't be scared, it would just jump at the noise maybe. My dog barks very loudly sometimes, right next to me, and my baby has never responded to it. I think unborn babies get used to different noises and really aren't bothered by them. It's not like a 2yr old being scared of thunder.
2007-04-24 18:54:50 · answer #5 · answered by Lindsay M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really doubt it, maybe if you are really scared, it will have some impact on the child... When I was born, there was a huge thunderstorm, and all the lights in the hospital went off, it was full of thunders' sound and you could see the reflection of the lightning (i was told by my parents).. In fact i have never been scared of thunderstorms, they are quite cool to see (if not devastating-.--i live in italy)
2007-04-24 18:59:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
considering how loud your heart probably sounds to him and how muffled thunder would sound under water, I'd say no. Now, why are you on your computer during such a storm?
2007-04-24 18:51:59 · answer #7 · answered by gumby 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it. I'm 7months too and read that they get accustomed to loud sounds while in the womb, so don't be surprised if the vacuum cleaner doesn't scare a newborn.
2007-04-24 18:51:58 · answer #8 · answered by ~∂Їβ~ 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
When I was about 8mo. along I went my little brothers band concert and had to leave because the drums would startle the baby and she would kick like crazy.
2007-04-24 20:27:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, but if you are scared or stressed about it, the baby can feel it, because they feel what you feel
2007-04-24 18:53:48 · answer #10 · answered by mrs garfield 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋