“Can a baby feel it when you rub your belly?”

Baby might.

That’s a great question that gets debated a lot. We do feel that your baby can hear in utero, so many patients read to their baby in their pregnant belly; whether it’s a children’s book or the Wall Street Journal, experts feel that the vibrations caused by speaking or singing are transferred through the amniotic fluid. But there are no vibrations that transfer through fluid with touch. Yet our brains put out ‘feel good’ hormones such as Serotonin that may chemically transfer through the bloodstream to the fetus but again, this is controversial as we cannot ask the fetus. We do know that when a pregnant mom is active, the baby will rest and when the mom rests, the baby will be active; which is why a baby is usually going to sleep during the day and be awake at night.

Babies cannot feel the touch directly but could be transmitted through the amniotic fluid which is the cushion around the baby.
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