Congratulations! Hope you are all doing well. Is this the first bellydanced baby on the forum?
There was a woman in my tap-dance class who was still tapping away well into her third trimester. Gave us all panic attacks when she kept turning up. But all things fine, and she brought the baby back to class as soon as she could. The little adorable would sleep in a cot on the floor throughout all the music, floor shaking and thumping about - she must have got used to it in the womb!
Ha! I actually shimmied a lot during labour too, funnily enough, at the end of contractions. I think it relaxed my body a bit.
My entertainment these days is Harvey Karp's Happiest Baby DVD, and he points out that fetuses are shaken constantly in the womb. In fact, they tend to wake up when *we* stop moving, i.e., nights. And the womb is a noisy place, what with all the blood rushing about. So I actually think it's quite normal for babies to find noise and movement soothing.