Pre-Natal Music?

[JackLuis]

Does anybody else remember when a Donny Osmond poster was found up a woman’s vagina? Because I do. I’ve never forgotten it, and I never will.

Now, there’s another means of smuggling Osmond into one’s insides – a vaginal speaker. Spanish company Babypod has invented a speaker that is designed to be inserted into the vagina, stimulating foetal development.

“Babies learn to speak in response to sound stimuli, especially melodic sound. Babypod is a device that stimulates before birth through music. With Babypod, babies learn to vocalise from the womb,” reads the blurb on the company’s website.

There has been plenty of research on the effect of sound on foetuses, and evidence suggests that unborn babies do respond to music in the womb. There are already multiple speakers available on the market (“prenatal speakers”) which are fitted around a pregnant woman’s stomach.

What to think?

 

[Handley_Page]

What to think?

Technically, the speakers on the bump would be better.
But what sort of music ?
Now, there's a question ? (Clue; it has to be gentle)

 

[beachbum1958]

What to think?

Foetuses DO react to external stimuli, this much is true; any woman who's had a baby will tell you the baby will kick if a sudden loud sound occurs near the mother, and it's a known fact the developing foetus will react to the sound of the mother's voice. Foetuses are also aware of light, as the abdominal wall distends through the latter stages of pregnancy and becomes thin enough for diffuse light to be experienced by the foetus. Whether or not the foetus is responding to external stimuli in a positive and beneficial way is still a matter for conjecture; there is a difference between 'responding' and 'reacting', after all, and one suspects the 'positive responses' noted by 'researchers' come from research carried out in order to convincingly market 'Babypod' speakers; it might be just as effective, and significantly cheaper, to sit closer to the stereo, stick in a Roy Orbison CD, and crank-up the volume an extra notch.

One suspects it's regular rhythm, such as heartbeats, that foetuses react most readily to; my own experience, based on my daughter, is that the bassier and more rhythmic the stimulus, the more likely the foetus is to react. When my wife was pregnant, she developed a liking for a reggae band, The Upsetters, and one album in particular, 'Super Ape', which is a bass-heavy dub album, which she played every chance she could. When my wife died, the only way I could get the baby to sleep was to either keep her on my chest, where she could listen to my heartbeat, the only other sound she would have heard constantly in the womb, or by playing that album; it knocked her out in seconds flat every time. Even today, 26 years later, if I want her to relax, I play that album and 5 minutes later she's fast asleep - perhaps she really was conditioned in the womb?

Admittedly, my contention is based on anecdotal rather than empirical evidence, but I would be interested in seeing how right (or wrong) I really am; as Niels Bohr once said 'if your theory is proved right, then you've learned something; if your theory is proved wrong, then you've also learned something.'

 

[NotWise]

Hmm. Vibrating ben wa ball. Headphones that hang from the vagina?

 

[OzoneRed]

It would be awkward if the cord pulled loose from the speaker while the speaker was inserted.

 

[Ewobbit]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5x5OXfe9KY

 

[Hypoxia]

There's a GB thread on this too. I mentioned there that we can expect a wireless vibrating speakers version soon, BlueToothed to your phone, open to hacking. Look forward to Ride Of The Valkyries or Kung-Fu Fighting pouring from pussies across the land. Plot bunny!

 

[oggbashan]

There have been CDs on sale in the UK for over a decade that are supposed to be music for the foetus and/or newborn e.g. Baby Bach; Baby Mozart etc.

 

[Handley_Page]

I suspect that the picture with the 'phones is probably more accurate

See HERE.

 

[LadyVer]

I hate to think how much vomiting my fetuses had to listen to while I was pregnant.

 

[NotWise]

I hate to think how much vomiting my fetuses had to listen to while I was pregnant.

That made me laugh.

For a time my wife was devoted to supporting other women through pregnancy and childbirth. She had a childbirth education business. She lobbied the State legislature to change laws. She trained as a lay midwife and later as a nurse midwife. I've heard lots of stories, but none about pregnant women wanting to feed Mozart or Bach to their fetus.

Stroking their belly and talking to the fetus, and having the father do the same, yes. I know about that.

 

[NotWise]

As my wife pointed out, if the volume gets too high then the ass hole next door might get irritated.

 

[Asbel]

I'm thinking of blasting Devil Driver into someone's cunt, but that's just me.

Soothe your infant with the sweet sounds of DEATH METAL.

DJENT DJENT DJENT DJENT

 

[Hypoxia]

We need a proper study of the effects of prenatal music via vaginal speakers. Four test groups of pregnant women; one group plays Death Metal, one plays Bach sonatas, one plays trad jazz, and the control group plays nothing. Follow the postnatal lives of those fetuses. Which become psycho killers, or saints, or pr0nstars? Yes, much research is needed. Can we get a grant?

 

[Handley_Page]

We need a proper study of the effects of prenatal music via vaginal speakers. Four test groups of pregnant women; one group plays Death Metal, one plays Bach sonatas, one plays trad jazz, and the control group plays nothing. Follow the postnatal lives of those fetuses. Which become psycho killers, or saints, or pr0nstars? Yes, much research is needed. Can we get a grant?

But who is going to compensate the victims of the psychotic child who was fed Death Metal too loudly and later committed hideous crimes ?

 

[Hypoxia]

But who is going to compensate the victims of the psychotic child who was fed Death Metal too loudly and later committed hideous crimes ?

Oh no, the metalheads will be fine. Watch out for the trad jazz kids. Death Metal is orderly. Trad is chaotic. Just look at all the psycho killers who grew up on Dixieland. Many of them go into politics. We are doomed.

 

[lovecraft68]

I wonder if my mother listened to a lot of hard rock when she was carrying me, it would explain a lot.

 

[Handley_Page]

I wonder if my mother listened to a lot of hard rock when she was carrying me, it would explain a lot.

My mother was fed Vera Lynn and Gracie Fields, etc..
No wonder I'm confused. . . .

 

[LadyVer]

That made me laugh.

For a time my wife was devoted to supporting other women through pregnancy and childbirth. She had a childbirth education business. She lobbied the State legislature to change laws. She trained as a lay midwife and later as a nurse midwife. I've heard lots of stories, but none about pregnant women wanting to feed Mozart or Bach to their fetus.

Stroking their belly and talking to the fetus, and having the father do the same, yes. I know about that.

It's difficult to focus on finding the right song for a fetus between vomiting and trying to prevent nausea 24/7. I think listening to good music while pregnant is a good option for mothers to be. But like anything else, not all options work for all.

 

[Ewobbit]

One of the wierdo things I did while teaching was to play music, both during lectures and labs.

I couldn't even guess at how many students (and co-workers) I had that gestated around my music. Not to mention the dulcet tones of my soothing voice. :eyeroll:

I had a co-worker not long before she went on maternity leave ask me to burn her a copy of my lectures. Since I already had them recorded, it was just a matter of burning them to disc for her.

It wasn't until later that she told me that during my lectures was the only time the fetus stopped doing his Jackie Chan impression. And, that she would put on one of my cds when she would put the little crumb snatcher down for a nap.

I'm still not sure how I feel about that.

Only, was it my voice or this (https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...F651CCC36F16EEB190AAF651CCC36F16EE&FORM=VIRE3) that did the trick?

 

[ElectricBlue]

Beachbum,

This little anecdote is really wonderful. Your bonding so closely with your little baby girl that way and in those circumstances, very moving. And for it to work 26 years on, wow!

When my wife died, the only way I could get the baby to sleep was to either keep her on my chest, where she could listen to my heartbeat, the only other sound she would have heard constantly in the womb, or by playing that album; it knocked her out in seconds flat every time. Even today, 26 years later, if I want her to relax, I play that album and 5 minutes later she's fast asleep - perhaps she really was conditioned in the womb?