Firstsounds Deluxe Prenatal Heart Listener

January 30th, 2007 Ob/Gyn

with free cassette tape!!! (note: cassette players no longer available)If you expectant parents can’t wait a few more weeks to feel the baby’s first kicks in utero, have we got a product for you. It’s called FirstSounds Prenatal Heart Listener, from Marylin Electronics. Developed by a neonatal nurse, Firstsounds is essentially an amplifier that’s supposed to pick up heart tones, kicks, hiccups, and probably Mom’s lunch working its way through the GI tract. Says one commenter on OhGizmo, “A $10 telephone recording mic with the suction cup would probably work as well.” Ah, but why start skimping on baby this early? Firstsounds retails for $34.95.
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