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They Say: Music May Be Harmful To Your Unborn Baby
Back in the Stone Age…okay, 1991…a French doc named Alfred Tomatis asserted that exposing your fetus to rhythmic sounds could actually increase your baby’s I.Q. Since then, countless unborn babies have swooned to Sinatra, gotten down with Aretha and rocked out to KISS right alongside mom and dad…months before they ever saw the light of day.
Electronic manufacturers soon jumped on the bandwagon and produced countless “prenatal educational systems” like Bellysonic and Baby Plus.
Flash-forward to 2010, and doctors aren’t buying it. Dr. David Cabbad, a pediatrician at the Brooklyn Hospital Center, is no fan. “This could be a hindrance to a baby’s sleep cycle,” he says .
Apparently prenatal cuties are sleeping the majority of the time–as well they should be. Any sudden noises can potentially jolt them out of sweet slumber…and actually impede their development
“I’d suggest going with something we know makes babies smarter — invest in books and start reading to your child when they are about 4 months old,” says Bernard P. Dreyer, director of developmental pediatrics at the NYU School of Medicine.
I dunno. I’d listen to the expert, but seems like a case of potay-to–potah-to to me.
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