Unborn babies can began learning much earlier than doctors originally estimated, according to the results of a Spanish study. The study concluded that babies can hear at 16 weeks gestation, rather than the typically scientifically accepted 26 weeks.

The study, led by Dr. Marisa Lopez-Teijon of the Institut Marques in Barcelona, involved 100 pregnant women between the 14th and 39th week of pregnancy. Researchers used a device called a Babypod, which was inserted into the vagina, to play Partita in A Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach.

The babies responded to the music, indicating they could hear. Doctors said almost half moved during the music, making head and limb movements as if they were dancing. Another 30 percent began moving their tongues or mouths. Ten percent stuck their tongues out, doctors said. Researchers said they know the music caused the babies to move because most stopped their movements when the music ended.
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Not only did the babies move – doctors said they sang. Video shows the child moving its mouth and tongue, and it looks like singing.

Doctors said it isn’t uncommon for babies to respond to sounds with movements that look like they are trying to speak or communicate. However, researchers never anticipated these movements to happen so early in the pregnancy. Researchers wrote on the Institut Marques website that this proves children can learn before they are born.

That will be a major advantage to new parents and doctors, researchers said.

“We are aware of and recognize the importance of talking to babies from the moment they are born to promote neurological stimulation. Now we have the amazing opportunity to do this much sooner, which is a huge advance,” researchers wrote.

Experiments with headphones on the mother’s stomach did not result in the babies making similar movements. Researchers said babies could hear their mother’s voice, her heartbeat and the sound of her heels on the floor, but only faintly due to the barrier of the stomach wall.

Researchers said the study’s results would help doctors who want to rule out fetal deafness. The findings could also help improve ultrasound scans with doctors using music to see how the baby moves, researchers said.

They must have seen me dancing,I've got some great head moves but they don't particularly coordinate with the music.

I don't believe for a minute that the fetus is singing & dancing.. more likeing a primal scream

These doctors want more funding to do experiments & re- promote ultrasound testing through out the world, since so many pediatricians & mothers are against it (& refuse it) because the damage it causes to hearing. And feeling the fetus under duress.

There were studies done years ago, that 90% of ultrasounds are medically unnecessary.
And they probably still are.

Well.. Let them stay in Barcelona Spain & hope Bill Gates isn't funding it, or we all may be screwed.

i didn't either, it seemed like a fluff piece from an anti abortionist...

if anything, they are just reacting to the sound vibrations more than anything else

Shoulda played 'Tunnel of Love'....

They definitely react to ultrasound. I have seen the reaction with my own (& felt it) & have seen it with other women.

The plan for the future is to try to vaccine fetus.. How Nazi sick is that!?
I don't know where I seen it.
That is what it reminded me of,
I couldn't even read it all.

I'm neither for, nor against the research.

Give it time though.
The libtards from family planning, or some other dirty hippy organization, will start screaming about how making a fetus dance is child exploitation.

The upside to the research, is that it proves a fetus is more cognizant than previously thought.

The list of events that get misinterpreted or manipulated in order to serve political or financial goals of the observers, gets longer every day.

ESPECIALLY when it comes to the actions and reactions of living beings who aren't able to speak for themselves.

This reminds me of how doctor after doctor told me that my newborn child couldn't feel any pain from the hernias they didn't tell me he had. No doubt this was because no newborn had ever filed a formal complaint against them for malpractice. Anyway, the week after I had the hernias repaired, my child stopped crying and screaming constantly for the first time in his life.

I've had a rule ever since, that any time some "expert" tells me that they know what anyone or anything else is thinking and feeling, unless the creature itself can verify it directly, I'm calling the "expert" a damn liar.