“Although there is no scientific evidence to
show that music can affect to children while they are still in their mothers’
womb, you can help your baby to do exercise a bit by music”.
When you are relaxing in a quiet room,
enjoying peaceful and comfortable atmosphere, the baby inside is surrounded by
noise in the body: the sound of flowing blood vessels, gurgling sound of
digestive system and heart beats. All these sounds are filtered through the
membrane of amniotic fluid surrounding the baby’s body. Because water can
filter sound better than air, surrounded sound will be reduced, become small
and not affect to the baby’s hearing.
When
you are relaxing in a quiet room, enjoying peaceful and comfortable atmosphere,
the baby inside is surrounded by noise in the body.
The first sound
Your baby’s outer ear structure starts to
be developed at the beginning of the fifth week but until mid-pregnancy, the
delicate inner ear is formed. From the 25th week onwards, you can
feel a kick from your baby if there is any large noise startling him. Sound
filtered through uterus membrane will give him ideas of the outside world and
stimulate his nervous system to become familiar with sound when he is just
born.
Sound with high and low pitch
The baby is able to hear some sounds more
clearly than other ones, and the voice of his mother tops the list of sound
that he can hear most obviously. The reason is that mother’s voice is echoed
through bones and tissues, and then transmitted to his ear, which makes that
voice become different from other sounds. A baby in the womb can hear
low-frequency words with vowels (words that are melodious) more easily than
high-frequency ones. Thus, giving the baby classical songs which are tuneful
and complicated will help the brain development since the baby is just a fetus.
In addition, music with bass will bring greater effect. Select songs with drum
and less flute sound. Talk with your husband who has natural low voice and
encourage him to chat with the baby. If he is shy, ask him to read news loudly
instead of talking with the baby, because what the baby feels, overall, is not
words but warmer voice of his father.
Talk
with your husband who has natural low voice and encourage him to chat with the
baby.
Music for geniuses
There are many CDs committing that if you
let your baby listen to classical or orchestra music through the headphone near
the belly, this special kind of music will turn him into Einstein before he is
born. In fact, we can’t verify this. What science can confirm is that the baby
is able to listen and respond to sounds they can hear, but they can’t identify
what sounds mean. Many researches show the close relationship between music
exercise and math skill, but it is for matured children. When being in the womb
of mothers, babies can not only “listen” but also “study” in the last time of
pregnancy. It is the reason why the best time for the baby to listen to
classical music is in advance of giving birth. A study of the University of
Paris Descartes demonstrated that 1 month after birth, the baby could still
remember tones that they heard in the last weeks of pregnancy.
Should we increase the volume for the baby?
Playing music too loudly via headphone near
the belly may cause sound disorder for the baby. The baby in the womb often
sleeps and awakes naturally to develop perfectly. This scientific development
process may be destroyed if you play songs such as the 5th symphony
of Beethoven. You can give your child your favorite classical songs instead,
with the volume is not over 70 decibels.
