On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Stephen Black wrote:
But it's still an interesting question to ask whether external
sound can affect fetal movement. The fetus can hear in the last
trimester of pregnancy. This was demonstrated in an experiment
(Birnholz Benacerraf, 1983) involving the application
Two questions here:
1) Does music, classical or otherwise, soothe the fetus?
2) Does a baby, exposed to classical or other music as a fetus,
become soothed when exposed to the same music after
birth?
For l), never having been pregnant, for which I give thanks, I
can
only speculate.
On Sat, 16 Dec 2000, Patti Price wrote:
I received this question via e-mail from one of my students. Is anyone
familiar with articles that address these questions?
"There has been a claim that classical music soothes the unborn child. At
how many months would this be possible? How about
The problem, of course, is how one separates _direct_ effects on the fetus
from effects that are artifacts of effects on the mother?
Given that the mother is the fetus' environment, plus the shared blood
supply (and endocrine effects) one would expect that any environmental
manipulation that
On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Stephen Black wrote:
But it's still an interesting question to ask whether external
sound can affect fetal movement. The fetus can hear in the last
trimester of pregnancy. This was demonstrated in an experiment
(Birnholz Benacerraf, 1983) involving the application of a
