Bebe Sounds

Crazy family doing crazy things.

I have two sister-in-laws who both really test my ability to deal with people who are ‘clinically insane’. They are currently both pregnant which really pushes things even more. Even the thrill of hearing an unborn baby’s heart beat, using the popular Bebe Sounds product, has become a reason for high drama and general unrest in this very hormonal and unbalanced family.

In-laws or outlaws?

Sister-in-law number one is a hearty and  healthy, voluptuous woman who is very pregnant and very rotund. I mean this in the nicest way possible. Sister-in-law number two is typical runway model who she looks like she swallowed a tennis ball. Or something maybe a bit larger, but only a bit! So it’s obvious that sister-in-law number two gets on everyone’s last nerve. Because the rotund sister-in-law has been pregnant for a whole month longer than skinny sister in law number two, I decided that I would lend her my Bebe Sounds heart monitor, to let her hear her baby’s heartbeat. I did so, while adding the warning that it is possible that she may not be able to hear anything.

Every thing except the heartbeat!

This warning comes directly from my own experience. I could actually hear everything through the Bebe Sounds heart monitor, everything that is, except for the baby’s heart. I could heard the traffic running up and down the street. I heard my neighbor’s washer and dryer running, but I heard not the slightest trace of the baby’s heart beating, using the Bebe Sounds monitor.

Find a quiet place!

There is good reason for the audio interference. I live in a noisy apartment in a noisy neighborhood, next to a loud woman, who had two even louder teenage daughters. Who loved to impress the neighbors with their taste in rap pop music The Bebe Sounds monitor instructs users to go to a very quiet place when using the device.

My very hormonal Rotund sister-in-law had no success with the Bebe Sounds monitoring device either. She tried using the monitor in dead silence, but to no avail. Her aggravation made me to instruct her to simply throw the thing away. It seemed like we had gotten a dysfunctional model but I didn’t kept the receipt and didn’t have the energy to go get another Bebe Sounds monitor. I just thought it would be best just to let the thing go.

So now skinny sister-in-law number two calls me. This usually means she wants something, This conversation was no exception. She wanted the Bebe Sounds heart monitor.

I ain't so fat as you gals!

When I told her that I threw it away, she shrieked WHY! in disgust. I then went on to explain that we bought had bought a defective Bebe Sounds monitor but not having the receipts etc. I couldn’t return it. Sister-in-law number two replied, “It probably didn’t work because you two have all that extra fat. The vibrations just couldn’t get through.”

She went on to explain how she would not have that problem. I went on to explain that I would contact my chubby sister-in-law and the three of us could discuss the whole thing together. Needless to say My Sister-in-law number two passed on the Bebe Sounds discussion.

Bebe Sounds Monitor are very useful devices and indeed Sister in law number 2 was delighted when the one she was forced to purchase herself, worked perfectly, for her Baby! We haven’t tested it ourselves yet, to see if her theory is correct?