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So many
people say that classic music can make fetus smart, but is that true? To know
that I will show you some of experts
statements about this. The first statement comes from Gordon Shaw, a
research pioneer in neuroscience at the University of California, says that
studies that have been conducted on older children, not fetuses. For example
piano lessons my enhance childrens spatial reasoning skills (the ability to
understand three-dimensional space), but it was only tested to 3 and
4-year-old. Then some experts assume if music can affect on older kids, babies
even fetuses may benefit from it the same way.
However,
Janet DiPietro, a developmental psychologist
who studies fetal development at Johns Hopkins University, says that the
conlusions are purely anecdotal and are
not based on true research. Unlike, DiPietro, California obstetrician Rene Van
de Carr says that fetuses can enjoy the music. He says he has observed a
33-week-old fetus and found that the fetus breathing to the beat of Beethoven’s
Fifth Symphony. Van de Carr continued, because the fetus followed the rhythm of
the symphony, it’s obvious that he learned something about the rhythm and
enjoyed it. Nevertheless, the other researchers such as DiPietro asks “What
reason do we have to think that breathing in time to music is a good thing?”
From some
statements above, we can conclude that there is no exact information that tells
music can make baby smarter or no. Mothers-to-be should play music because they enjoy it, not
because trying to make their unborn baby smarter. Music can make mothers-to-be
relax, fall asleep, or have the pregnancy blahs. Feeling relax has good indirect effect to their baby, DiPietro
says “when a woman relaxes, that’s good
for the fetus and that’s an indirect effect of music on the fetus”.
