Kicking Children

Prospective parents may be interested in the New Scientist series  ”Bumpology, ” the latest entry of which is  Active Fetus, Boisterous Child? Uh-Oh . The scientific findings “are inconsistent,” the writer reports, but I know that our first and third were calm before birth and are calm now, and our second and fourth were active (the second moved so much that even I got jaded) and are active now.

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