Caring for your unborn baby

If you're observant and aware, you and your partner can be in touch with your unborn baby throughout pregnancy. Your baby can hear you, and can feel you touch him through your abdominal wall. And while not all babies have a trouble-free development, modern medical techniques mean that even those babies who do not, have the best possible chance.

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  In touch with your baby

  Being aware of your unborn baby at all times is the first stage in bonding with her and making sure you have a good relationship in the future. Keeping in touch means you'll be aware of what's best for your baby's physical and emotional health.
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  What your baby experiences

  Even while she's in your womb, your baby feels, hears, sees, tastes, responds, and even learns and remembers. She's not, despite what doctors used to think, an unformed, blank personality.
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  Your baby's movements

  The moment you feel your baby move inside you for the first time is a huge thrill - proof that she actually exists. Even though you may have had an ultrasound scan, which showed your baby moving about in the womb, she'll seem much more real when you feel her for yourself.
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