Smiling unborn child

While we knew that mothers often sing to their unborn children, we weren’t sure that the unborn child could hear them. We are now. A camera and a microphone designed for underwater use were inserted into the uterus of a pregnant woman. The hydrophone picked up two sounds: the “whooshing” of the uterine artery and the unmistakable sound of a woman singing a lullaby. Then something extraordinary happened. Upon hearing the woman’s voice, the unborn child smiled. It was one of those moments that makes you catch your breath. The full humanity of the fetus could not have been clearer if he had turned to the camera and winked. Breakpoint; Music Therapy for Infants