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FirstSounds Deluxe Prenatal Gift Set | 
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| Brand: FirstSounds
Category: Baby Product
Buy New: $46.42 (On sale from $49.99)
You Save: $3.57 (7%)
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 6506
Batteries: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 3 x 10.8
MPN: PHL14
Model: PHL14
UPC: 740033002434
EAN: 0740033002434
ASIN: B000YJ6GCI
Release Date: August 27, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Record your baby's sounds with your own recording device | | • | Email these sounds to family and friends | | • | Includes a fetal monitor, CD, microphone, speakers and maternity belt | | • | Hear your unborn baby's heartbeat, kicks and hiccups | | • | Record your own heartbeat to soothe your newborn baby |
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Product Description
This FirstSounds Deluxe Prenatal Gift Set gives you everything you need talk and play music to your unborn baby. Hear your unborn baby's heartbeat, kicks and hiccups. You can even e-mail these sounds to your family and friends. It includes a Prenatal Heart Listener, 2 Headsets, Fetal Microphone, Fetal Speakers, Maternity Belt, Recording Cable and 2 CDs.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Dubious At Best December 30, 2008
AnotherHiggins
Subtitle: Taking Money From Excited Parents-To-Be
My wife and I bought this product early in the pregnancy. We took it home and tried it and didn't hear anything. But we chalked that up to it being too early.
We broke it out again at around 25 weeks. Nothing. But it was still pretty early.
26, 27, 28, 29 weeks. Nothing.
Then at 30 weeks.... More nothing.
We tried this all the way up to delivery (37.5 weeks for us) and we could never be sure that what we were hearing was the result of our baby moving as opposed to the mic just picking up every micro-movement.
The problem is that this is just a cheap condenser microphone that is held up to the woman's belly. Holding it by hand definitely won't work - you can't hold your hand still enough to prevent the microphone from picking up small vibrations.
But we also tried this with the included elastic strap while my wife was lying down in a quiet room with both the ceiling fan and even the AC turned off.
Sure, we heard.... something.
And, at the time, we really, really, REALLY wanted to believe that what we heard was our baby. But in the end I'm afraid that most, if not all, of what we heard was just very small movements of my wife's belly.
If you've ever used an acoustic stethoscope, this product sounds similar to what you hear when handling the tubes leading from the diaphragm/bell to the earpieces. Kind of a "pfff pfff *thump* pfff".
The following is from the (current as of this posting) Wikipedia article on electronic stethoscopes: "The simplest and least effective method of sound detection is achieved by placing a microphone in the chestpiece. This method suffers from ambient noise interference and has fallen out of favor." That is the technology used in this product.
Regarding the reviewer who said she liked to put the speakers (which are basically really cheap headphones without anything to hold them to your head) to read to her baby.... A baby can hear her/his mother's voice _very_ well without a microphone and speakers. They're inside your body, where the vibrations of your voice are made, you know. The amniotic fluid actually amplifies sounds so they can even hear dad pretty well, too.
In summary, if we had it to do over again, we would rent/buy a dopler microphone or just go without.
 Very good for bonding December 21, 2008
M. Leimbach (Eastern Shore of MD)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The monitor picks up a lot of outside noises, so it's important to hold still when trying to hear the baby moving around. The neatest part is the microphone and speakers. I could lay in bed and put the speakers on my belly, and the microphone would rest on my chest and I would read to the baby. Also, my husband felt weird talking to my belly, but sitting up with me talking into the microphone made it not as akward. The CDs were very good also. Would definitely buy again.
Don't Waste Your $$ October 29, 2008
L. Johnson (Madison,AL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a joke, like it says, it does not use ultrasound, etc. It is like a microphone with bad feedback, basically. So, if you can't hear your baby's heartbeat just-so, this won't work either.
All I heard was my finger touching the button.
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