Scientist noticed that when a the women repeatedly read aloud a section of the Dr. Seuss, The Cat and The Hat while the baby was in the women, the baby recognize that passage when it was read when they were born. Another study that was found that babies often recognized a theme song of their mother 's favorite T.V. show because she wanted it every day during her pregnancy. Fetus are even learning so much about the spoken language they will be born into. Researchers found that babies cry in the accent of their mother’s native accent. They learned that French babies cry on a raising a note and German babies cry on a falling …show more content…
During the blockade in Eastern Holland of 1944, 40,000 fetuses were affected. The population during this time ate an average of 500 calories a day. The effects of malnutrition during the pregnancy caused stillbirths, birth defects, low birth weights, and infant mortality. Decades after the hunger winter researches documented that the people who were fetus during this siege had more obesity, diabetes, and heart disease later in life that individuals who were born under normal conditions. These individuals of prenatal experience during the starvation seemed to have higher blood pressure, poor cholesterol, and reduce glucose. Often, fetus are trying to make the best of a bad situation, so when food is scarce they focus on putting the nutrients they do get to critical organs, like the brain. They did not focus much on the heart or liver, this kept the fetus alive in the short term, but later it affect them. Fetus are taking cues from the environment and tailoring them to their body accordingly. They are preparing themselves to enter the world they will be born into. Particularly this fetus adjusted the metabolism and other physical processes to help prepare them. Once these children were born, they thought the food would be scarce, but in reality, they had an abundance of