Turns Out, Speaking To Your Unborn Baby Is Important

I have known that the unborn, or the preborn as you may, are not just a "clump of cells." From the moment of conception they are human beings. Left to go to term, they will inevitably be born as a baby, not a dog or a cat or any other creature. Now it seems that scientists have discovered even more evidence, as if there weren't enough, that the unborn child in the womb exibits human characteristics. For example, according to Andrea Widburg at the American Thinker It turns out that pre-birth 'clumps of cells' are already learning how to speak.

I’ve always known about the connection between a verbal mother and a child who learns to speak well and quickly. Indeed, Gerry Charlotte Phelps, one of my early blog friends and a fascinating woman, made that point vividly when she wrote about working with women in terrible urban slums. On her now-defunct website, she said that these women never talked to their children except to threaten them with punishment. In this, they starkly contrasted with middle- and upper-middle-class mommies who never stopped talking to their children. The chatty mommies do so because they know it’s good for their child’s intellectual development.

Of course, all of that occurs after the baby is born. But what about before it’s born? Well, experiments are showing that, even in the womb, babies are developing language skills:

If you're an expectant mother, chatting as much as possible could give your baby a headstart when it comes to learning to talk.

That's because new research has found your unborn son or daughter will start learning the language you speak before they're even born.

In experiments, researchers discovered heightened activity in the brains of newborns when they heard the language they were exposed to most often in utero.

The study didn't look at exactly when babies become receptive to spoken language while they are still in the womb, although it's well known that a foetus starts hearing sounds in the later stages of the second trimester and the start of the third.

Therefore, expectant mothers – and fathers too – should not be afraid to chat away, and even talk directly to their baby bump.

Gentle readers will want to read the whole article. At this time of year, as we have just celebrated Thanksgiving Day, the article gives us one more thing to be thankful for this year. As one commenter said, creating life is one of the great joys of life.