How Soon Can a Baby Hear the Benefits of Playing Lullabies?
Pregnancy is an exciting and magical time for young women. The experience of having a human life growing inside of you is unlike any other. Medical science has come so far in the past 50 years that we now can see literally moment-by-moment development of the fetus and pick up on potential problems so early that even surgery can be performed in utero. When it comes to the development of the fetal ear much has been written. The 20th-century medical pioneer of the fetal ear is a man named Tomatis. Dr. Alfred Tomatis was fascinated by the development of the fetal ear and determined that by the beginning of the second trimester the ear was functioning. The baby can hear only the mother’s digestion and blood circulation in the beginning. Because of the rhythmic nature of the mother’s hearbeat and circulation, baby becomes accustomed to this rhythmic pulse and associates it with nurture and safety. Now, how can the Mom-to-be capitalize on this new phenomenon going on with her unborn child? Th
