Bad influence

In this phase, my little blueberry can sense the world with me - he can hear sound (us talking, music, noise and TV), sense the light, and taste flavors.

This worries me, because I can be a bad influence.

For example, I got some potty mouth, well, sometimes. I will curse the stupid drivers and just stupid people in general. Unfortunately they are everywhere and I don't seem to avoid them. Also, I say mean things. The other day, I said to a guy who kept dropping weights at the gym that what he did was very annoying and it was also scaring me and my belly.

I worry that I watch too much TV. Not that I have a lot of time to watch TV, but when I go through the DVR'ed shows, I just couldn't help finishing them all at once. To be honest, I don't watch very intellectuall shows, like say, shows on Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel or History Channel, no they bore me or I should say, I haven't found any interesting subject that keeps my attention span. The most intellectual show that I have watched religiously recently was probably The Newsroom, and I think blueberry likes it too. Among all trash TV shows I watch, Royal Pain, White Collar, Suit, Covet Affairs, Necessary Roughness, to name a few, are my favorite. But maybe Royal Pain is not all so bad because blueberry can learn medical knowledge and be influenced in case he wants to be a doctor in the future. I'd say, if he really wanted to become a doctor, a concierge doctor would be actually a pretty good career path.

We try not to watch a lot of TV and decide that we will never let TV raise our kid. However, it's getting very hard especially during football season, which is like almost half of a year. For that, we have not figured out a solution.

To balance things a little, WQXR (the NYC local classical music station) is always on during the day since the moment we wake up, and blueberry likes it too. It also has a lot of calming effect on me while I am working in the office, so win-win! We even have the classical music station on when TB plays video games.

When it comes to the part where baby can listen to us talk, I do try talking to him a lot even though it's kindda odd talking to the belly. I did that at the supermarket and got curious eyes because I totally got carried away. When TB and I talk, I guess we just talk normally.

Sometimes if my sweet TB is annoying me, I'd do nothing to him but said to my belly "Daddy is really annoying right now and mommy does not like it. Don't grow up like daddy OK?" or, "Daddy just said What The Fuck. " It really works, because TB would leave me alone right away.

In terms of developing blueberry's taste buds, you can trust that I eat everything I love and I am really hoping my kid will love it too, especially anything that's spicy and sour. As I am helping him develop the taste buds, I am hoping he is not a picky eater because I am not. One thing for sure is that my diet is more Chinese than American and he is already eating all kinds of Chinese veggies.

However what I am not quite sure is that, whenever he kicks or moves because certain things I do, I can't tell whether he likes it or he protests it.

There are a lot of myths regarding how fetus' brain develop in the womb, but there are also a lot of science. I learn that all the "belly devices" to strapped on to the belly with music and sound to develop baby's sense of rhythm or what not, do not work. Glad I didn't spend the money. However, it is very important to provide a soothing and calming environment for baby to grow in the womb. That said, I need to keep calm and cool.


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DearJulie


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