hear matoog's heartbeat!

hear matoog's heartbeat!

: ana; February 21st, 2007

Current Mood:: giddy

http://www.anacam.com/lj2007/matoogheartbeat022107.wav

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i recorded my baby's heartbeat at 17 weeks (we call it matoog) with my fostex 4 track (really old, records on cassette, and bought around 1982...what i've recorded all my demos on thus far), and then to get to a .wav file i had to put up to the headphones my toy aiptek camcorder that also records really crappy sound..and voila! i have now a very primitive recording of the heartbeat to show you :) yay!

there is some noise at the beginning and at the end as i fumble to turn the device on and off. i'll try to edit that stuff out later with something.

but for now, here it is :)
and here's my little belly (not much of one yet):

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knottyman

2007-02-21 09:30 pm (UTC)

sounds like a strong healty beat. :).

corona

2007-02-21 09:31 pm (UTC)

Very nice thank you for sharing.

x23kitten

2007-02-21 09:38 pm (UTC)

thats beautiful! that's really awesome that you recorded that.
you made my day.

ana

2007-02-21 10:04 pm (UTC)

it made my day, too :)

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ana

2007-02-21 10:05 pm (UTC)

that's how i feel when i hear it :)
especially the first time!
i just was astounded!
it took me the whole day to calm down!

melena

2007-02-21 10:14 pm (UTC)

how lovely :)

powered_monk

2007-02-21 11:41 pm (UTC)

It's nice to see it utilized; such a good use of ancient technology!
Good luck on your belly.

ana

2007-02-22 01:08 am (UTC)

:)

and thank you for being the best ever co-mod of contest! you are really helping me a LOT and you are rocking it!

are you back from japan?

powered_monk

2007-02-22 04:11 am (UTC)

good to hear :)

yup, I'm back... sort of a strange trip, but glad for the experience

I'll go again sometime

stephthegeek

2007-02-22 12:02 am (UTC)

Oh so wonderful! Thank you for sharing. And your teensy belly too :D

ana

2007-02-22 12:22 am (UTC)

thank uuuu :)

hey have you ever played around with this?
http://www.webcamxp.com/screenshots.html

webcamXp

grass

2007-02-22 12:40 am (UTC)

I have been using it for years, love it. Excellent program.

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ana

2007-02-22 01:10 am (UTC)

if i use it with a camcorder is this the only version i can use?

http://www.orangeware.com/endusers/webcamdv.html

also can you email me again
anavoog@gmail.com

i gotta back you an ana2 pass!
sorry i have been so slow!

also been trying really hard to upload that video to blip.tv but it keeps timing out on me!
grrr!

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tmcm

2007-02-22 12:05 am (UTC)

that's amazing. I'm glad you're going through with it.

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ana

2007-02-22 01:12 am (UTC)

my midwife has a fetal doppler stethascope.
i'm not sure how it works but it comes with a mini amplifier and so i put a microphone up to the tiny speaker and recored it like that :)

my stomache looks like that pretty much in normal life, too. once in a while it would go flatter, but now it does not. and that is as flat as my stomache gets now. it can puff out way more depending on what i ate that day, etc.

jerkface02

2007-02-22 03:37 am (UTC)

wow! very cool!

earthlog

2007-02-22 04:45 am (UTC)

the little heart is jus beating away
beautiful

you are something
special, Ana

midnightman

2007-02-22 08:03 am (UTC)

Maybe you could write a song in that tempo and use your baby's heartbeat in the intro.

ana

2007-02-22 07:48 pm (UTC)

yes, i'm going to do sonmething like that.

amazing...

mr_shy_observer

2007-02-22 12:06 pm (UTC)

sometimes I forget how jaw dropping your body is... You really are gorgeous

feminist_poet

2007-02-22 05:17 pm (UTC)

That is just amazing! Thank you for sharing that. :) And your belly is cute.

ohpun

2007-02-22 07:18 pm (UTC)

Very cool. A heartbeat in the ocean. I hope you are taking a picture of yourself in profile each day in the same place. Then you can put them together into a little movie showing your belly growing.

ana

2007-02-22 07:50 pm (UTC)

ya, i should do that...but i just don't feel up to doing it...can't realy say why.
too many other things to do , i guess!

shannonkringen

2007-02-23 08:41 am (UTC)

amazing to hear that ana!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

presidentnixon

2007-02-23 07:08 pm (UTC)

this is your first yes? i just had my first a month ago. the funny thing is after you have him or her you will forget how it feels to be pregnant. like amnesia.