Jojo:
It's really exciting to actually know that babies are hearing before birth.
The hearing starts to develop about 16 weeks in the womb.
If you think about it, the baby's ears are right down beside the pelvic bones, right towards the end of pregnancy as well.
So they're getting all the vibration, they're getting all the ups and downs and the tones of your voice.
Especially male voices, from outside the womb.
The male voice is lower, and if guys can get down into their lowest voice and talk to the bump, then actually the babies will remember they are already learning.
Let's just take what the baby hears all the time, day and night: the mother's heartbeat.
And you can find your pulse if you push two fingers into the side of the neck, right under the jaw.
So we take this pulse and we might then make a sound to the pulse, so the baby's getting our voice to the beat that they're hearing.
Are we noticing a response from the baby? Are they moving? Or do they become still?
Sometimes they become quite still. Because they're listening.
They're experiencing our connection with them.
Anything like that is connecting all these sensations for the unborn child and building those pathways in the brain before birth.
Yes, it's all happening.
Mum:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
how I wonder what you are.
Did you know that babies' hearing starts developing from about sixteen weeks into pregnancy?
Music Therapist Jojo Lander explains how talking to your baby bump and making sounds during pregnancy can help with your baby's brain development before birth.
Image caption, Babies' hearing starts to develop from about 16 weeks into pregnancy. They pick up on vibrations and the ups and downs of voices outside the womb. They find it easier to hear deeper male voices.
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