Music is pretty magical stuff, and there’s a new study that proves just how powerful music can be: it found that classical music can have a physical effect on a baby before it’s born.
The study is in the latest edition of a journal named “Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science.”
The researchers worked with 36 pregnant women, playing two classical compositions to them and their babies-to-be.
The two pieces: “The Swan,” from the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, and “Arpa de Oro,” from Mexican composer Abundio Martinez.
Both are pretty low-key pieces; there’s plenty of complex music going on, but the mood in each case is chill.
And sure enough, the team found that the fetal heart rates were more stable and regular during and after the music.
Which is what you want, right? A nice, calm, stable atmosphere for the little ones as they develop?
Now, the researchers don’t know specifically what those little hearts were responding to.
Maybe it was the calming music, or maybe just specific elements of the compositions.
It could be that the music made the pregnant women feel calmer and that’s what settled the fetal heart rates down.
It could be a cultural connection to these types of music; it could be that these are all future hipsters who would’ve responded to any music!
The researchers are going to study the effects of different genres of music to narrow down what seems to have the most positives for soon-to-be families.
Maybe somewhere down the road each prospective parent who sets up a prenatal doctor’s appointment could also get a personalized prenatal playlist.
Today in 2019, a man named Ric lost his Rolex Submariner watch while surfing off the coast of Queensland, in Australia.
His father had given him the watch almost 50 years before when he won a sailing race, so he was very disappointed to see it drop into the water.
In July 2023, more than four years later, surfer Matt Cuddihy was doing some cleanup on the beach when he found that watch in the sand.
And after a little cleanup, he got the watch back to its owner.
Music can touch the heart, even inside the womb (EurekAlert)
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