Woman all over the world who are carrying a baby handle the life changing journey in various ways. Some are single first time mothers who are striving to find a way to make their situation work, a few are surrogates who are carrying a baby for a family who are unable to conceive on their own, and many are families who are trying to extend their current family. No matter what the reasoning is behind the conception of the infant, there is always the mystery of how much the fetus can really absorb as they are developing within the womb. Studies all over the world have been conducted to discover how much they can really obtain. Proving whether or not an infant will react the same way or differently outside of the womb when being presented with
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They make their own noises as they kick and swish around in the amniotic fluid. As they listen to the thuds from their mother’s heartbeat, their own heartbeat begins to race twice as fast. The fetus is able to the conversations, loud noises, and music just in a distorted pattern. The higher the sounds are the more muffled they appear due to the abdomen and the walls of the womb filtering out the highest frequencies. Therefore making the lower, bass notes in music much more affective and clear to understand. Furthermore, vowels have a tendency to create a lower pitch within consonants, making it easier for the fetus to hear. (Peter Tallack, 2006) A Finnish neuroscientist who works at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark put these findings to a test. He conducted a study involving a group of pregnant women who listened to a soundtrack for fifteen minutes, fives days a week. Within this recording the fetus listened to “tatata” repeatedly. Occasionally he swapped out the middle syllable, so the fetus would then listen to “tatota”. Or they would hear the same word “tatata” but in various timbres. (Ari Daniel, 2016) Throwing the baby off of it’s normal routine. After the babies were born he tested his findings to discover whether or not these newborns would any type of reaction to the same recording they heard while developing. He …show more content…
Many woman who are expecting often place a pair of headphones over their stomach, so the baby will be able to listen to music and already feel comfortable with the rhythmic tunes flowing through their wall. Peter Talk expresses in his book, “ In the Womb”, how infants’ moods are altered depending on the type of music they hear. If they were to hear classical or choral type music it would create a calming affect. The fetus would associate the music as having a more natural and human like voice. When they hear it repeatedly, they then are able to recognize the tunes and often move around in the uterus to the beat of the
They make their own noises as they kick and swish around in the amniotic fluid. As they listen to the thuds from their mother’s heartbeat, their own heartbeat begins to race twice as fast. The fetus is able to the conversations, loud noises, and music just in a distorted pattern. The higher the sounds are the more muffled they appear due to the abdomen and the walls of the womb filtering out the highest frequencies. Therefore making the lower, bass notes in music much more affective and clear to understand. Furthermore, vowels have a tendency to create a lower pitch within consonants, making it easier for the fetus to hear. (Peter Tallack, 2006) A Finnish neuroscientist who works at Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark put these findings to a test. He conducted a study involving a group of pregnant women who listened to a soundtrack for fifteen minutes, fives days a week. Within this recording the fetus listened to “tatata” repeatedly. Occasionally he swapped out the middle syllable, so the fetus would then listen to “tatota”. Or they would hear the same word “tatata” but in various timbres. (Ari Daniel, 2016) Throwing the baby off of it’s normal routine. After the babies were born he tested his findings to discover whether or not these newborns would any type of reaction to the same recording they heard while developing. He …show more content…
Many woman who are expecting often place a pair of headphones over their stomach, so the baby will be able to listen to music and already feel comfortable with the rhythmic tunes flowing through their wall. Peter Talk expresses in his book, “ In the Womb”, how infants’ moods are altered depending on the type of music they hear. If they were to hear classical or choral type music it would create a calming affect. The fetus would associate the music as having a more natural and human like voice. When they hear it repeatedly, they then are able to recognize the tunes and often move around in the uterus to the beat of the