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July 18, 2006

Email of the Week

From: cool Dutch name deleted
Date: July 18, 2006
To: rhudson@digitalism.com
Subject: Hello from The Netherlands

Hello Rob,

On your website about your pragnent wife Julie, I saw that she had put a headphone on her belly. Is that relaxing for the baby, when you put on soft music? Because a week ago I saw on a website that another women had a headphone on her pregnant belly, and that gave me an idea to innovate this. By making a belt with earplugs on it with a standard jack, so you can put it in your mp3/stereo.

Kind Regards,
cool Dutch name deleted

My favorite part is where he asks me if it's relaxing for the baby. I'm so stupid, I totally forgot to ask Schuyler when she was born...
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous3:02 PM

    Funny, Rob, but it DID make me wish I'd tried this back when I was pregnant (headphones on belly, that is). If it does work to relax the baby, maybe he wouldn't have kicked me so darn hard.

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  2. bozoette3:32 PM

    Geez, if only you'd known!

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  3. K3:57 PM

    I'm confused. Would the earplugs go in the pregnant woman's ears, or on her abdomen? Or would it be strap-on headphones, for the exclusive use of the baby? Or is it not at all connected with maternity apparel?

    This invention is making my empty head hurt.

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  4. Christina4:30 PM

    I'm currently 7 1/2 half months pregnant, and this is making me laugh. Maybe my fetus is different or something, but there's NO WAY that would relax her. If there's music, or anything with a vaguely repetitive sound, within her hearing, she immediately starts dancing. On my RIBS. With, apparently, CLOGS.

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  5. Anonymous5:09 PM

    Christina -- somehow I'm sure you need to tell either Dooce or Blurbomat about the clogs...

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  6. Anonymous11:59 AM

    "relaxing for the baby". Hmmm. Probably so, as long as it isn't gangsta rap. For that headphones aren't nearly enough -- you've got to strap on a couple of subwoofers and be careful of those filter caps around water! Also, mummy must wear some dangly jewelry to mimic the rattling of loose car body panels.

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  7. misty harley3:01 PM

    as a side note, the experiment that included headphones blaring the likes of Metallica and Ozzy result in a child with "wanna be rock star" syndrome.

    Just a warning. Really, I wouldn't know personally.

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