Talking to Bump

I'm 17 weeks and feel like I should be talking to my bump now. I just find it a bit forced as I don't have the urge to say much. But I feel the pressure to start talking to my baby now. I feel so bad for not feeling an urge to speak to my bump, I don't think I can say it out loud. Anyone else with similar thoughts?

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Babies can't hear outside of the womb until like 24 weeks. So even if you talk to it now, the baby wouldn't be able to hear it

Please don’t put pressure on yourself! You don’t have to do anything that doesn’t feel right. Plus yeah it’s actually more like 29 weeks they can start to hear some sounds outside but even if you don’t feel like it then you shouldn’t feel bad about it

i never did. baby doesnt know who youre talking to but you talk all day long. i think i told him to stop kicking me in the ribs a few times but thats about it 😂

This just came up on my feed even though I just had my baby.

For what it’s worth I don’t think I ever talked to my bump! Or if I did it was in jest in front of my partner or something.

You’ve loads of things to be thinking about at this stage, talking to it ain’t one of them!

I don’t talk to mine but find myself singing to it round the house.

I’m happy enough with that

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