What we learn before we were born?

Today my subject is learning. When does learning begin? As you are pondered with this question, you must be thinking of the first day of pre-school, or kindergarten, when you were in class room with a teacher or the toddler phase were kids learn to sit, walk and eat during their 0-3 years, as it is important years of learning. So you answer to the question would be learning begins at birth.

Well, today I present to you an idea that may be surprising, that may even be seeing impossible. But which is supported by the latest evidence by psychology and biology. That is some of the important learning in our life do happens even before we were born, while we were still in our mothers bellies.

There is a new scientific field called fetal origins. It is a discipline which was emerged 2 decades ago and its based on the theory our health and wellbeing throughout our lives is crucially e affected by the 9 months we spend in the womb. The most fascinating thing is that we are learning about this world even before we enter it. When we hold our babies for the first time we might think that they are clean slates unmarked by life. Where infact they are already shaped by us and by the particular world we live in.

Today, I am going to share some of the interesting and amazing facts, that scientist have discovered what fetuses learn when they are in their mothers womb. 1. They learn their mothers voice The sound of the outside world has to travel through the mothers belly, are being herd by the fetus during 4th month of gestation are either muted or muffled. But the mothers voice reverts through her own body reaches fetuses much more readily. Also bcoz the fetus is with her all the time, it hears her voice a lot. Once the baby is born it recognizes its mothers voice and prefers listening to it than any other voice. An example to this, the pregnant women who watch serials regularly, those babies do recognize the theme song of these serials, once they are born.

2. Fetuses are learning about the particular language that is spoken in the world that they will be born into. Studies show that from the moment of birth babies cry in the accent of their mothers native language. Imitating the melodic contours of these languages.

An Example: French babies cry in a raising note and German babies cry in a falling note style.

3. Fetuses learn about tastes and smells. By the seventh month of gestation, the fetuss tastes buds are fully developed and its olfactory receptors, which allow it to smell, are functioning. The flavor of the food the mother eats finds their way into the amniotic fluid which is continuously swallowed by the fetus. Babies seem to remember and prefer these tastes once they are born.

Example: During an experiment, a group of pregnant women were asked to drink a lot of carrot juice though out the pregnancy and another group as asked to drink a lot of water. The babies of the first group recognized the taste of the carrot juice once they were given when they were born than to water or any other substance. What this it means that the fetuses are effectively taught by their mothers about what is safe and good to eat. Fetuses are also being taught about the particular culture that they will be joining through one of cultures most powerful expressions, which is food. They are being introduced to the characteristic flavors and spices of their cultures cuisine even before birth. Much of what the pregnant women encounters in her daily life, the air she breathes, the food she eats, the chemicals she is exposed to, even the emotions she feels are shared in some fashion with her fetus. They make up a mix of influences as individuals and idiosyncratic as the woman herself. The fetus incorporates these offerings into its own body, makes them part of its flesh and blood. And often it does something more. It treats these maternal contributions as information, as what I like to call biological postcards from the outside world.

Here is a story, on September 11, 2001, there were tens of thousands of people in the vincity of World Trade Center in New York, was busy with their morning schedules, 1700 of these were pregnant women, when the plane struck and the towers collapsed, many of these women experienced the same horrors inflicted on other survivors of the disaster, the overwhelming chaos and confusion, the rolling clouds of potentially toxic dust and debris, the heart ponding fear for their lives. About a year after 9/11 researchers examined a group of women who were pregnant, when they were exposed to the World Trade Center attack. In the babies of those women who developed post-traumatic stress syndrome, or PTSD, following their ordeal researchers discovered a biological marker of susceptibility of PTSD an effect that was most pronounced in infants whose mothers experienced the catastrophe in their third tri semester. In other words, the mothers with post-traumatic stress syndrome had passed on a vulnerability to the condition, to their children while they were in utero. It means that, even before birth, mothers are warning their children that its a wild world out there, telling them, Be Careful. Fetal origins research is not about blaming women for what happens during pregnancy. Its about discovering how best to promote the health and well-being of the next generation. That important effort must include a focus on what fetuses learn during the nine months they spend in the womb. To conclude, I would like to say that learning is one of the lifes most essential activities and it begins much earlier than we ever imagine.

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