Stages of Fetal Development

So, why not music? 

In short, all babies are exposed to speech and music, but these pass by them as white noise, absolutely meaningless. 

Every unborn child experiences a sonic environment - outside voices, television, radio, CDs - all passing through the abdominal wall (which lowers their volume by about 35 decibels, and muffles these sounds . . . like listening underwater), but most dominant is mother's blood pulsing constantly past the womb at 95 decibels, loud as a rock band; even so, the fetus sleeps about 80 percent of each day.

To promote a beginning pattern recognition, such basic stimuli must be very simple and repetitive, something which neither speech nor music can accomplish.  The repetitive curriculum of the mother's heartbeat sounds is exactly what your baby needs to begin prenatal learning.

Music is wonderful for infants and children.  As prenatal enrichment, however, it has proved ineffective.  Music is too random and complex, while the spoken word is not understandable for an unborn child.  Instead, the recurring patterns of BabyPlus--based upon the maternal heartbeat's tone--and the changes in rhythm are the most beneficial sonic influences.  BabyPlus may sound repetitive to adults, but it is optimal as the earliest form of learning . . . an age-appropriate natural curriculum.

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