Things you learn right from your mother's womb

Scientists have discovered that children can learn certain things even when they are not born. Let's find out what it is.

1. From your mother's womb, you eat well

Professor Peter Hepper of Queen's University in Belfast (Northern Ireland) wondered if we could feel the taste of food from the womb. He decided to conduct a study on 33 children whose mothers often ate or did not eat garlic foods during the late pregnancy.

The results showed that people who ate garlic-based foods during pregnancy, their children also ate garlic at 8-9 years of age, while this was an extremely disgusting baby food.

Taste can go straight from the mother's mouth to the fetal blood through the mother's blood system.

So how can babies feel food while in their womb? Hepper explained that the food is absorbed into the amniotic fluid, so when the fetus begins to swallow (about 10 weeks of age), they will sense the taste from the food provided by their mother. In addition, the taste can go straight from the mother's mouth to the fetal blood through the mother's blood system.

Not only with garlic, but the results are similar when experimenting with carrot juice: babies about 5 to 6 months love this juice if their mother drinks while pregnant. Hepper thinks this is probably the way children know their parents: they experience the same flavors as when they were still pregnant.

2. You already enjoy music

We often conceive that children are born as an unknown white paper, but in fact they are surprisingly sensitive to their surroundings, especially reacting to the sounds heard when the mother is in pregnancy.

Children can hear and enjoy music right from the belly.

A group of scientists from Finland did an experiment on two groups of pregnant women: the group listened to lullabies every day, and the group did not listen.

When observing the number of babies born, the results of the experiment showed that the baby whose mother was in the first group reacted to the familiar songs, while the remaining children did not care at all.

This proves that children can hear and enjoy music right from the belly.

3. You already know the voice discrimination

Athena Vouloumanos, a psychologist at the University of New York, conducted a study on how to see babies' reactions to voices.

Children recognize their native language, when spoken by their mother and when others speak.

She used pacifiers, on which the receptor could measure the child's " sucking" level . As a result: the more children hear the sound, the stronger the sucking, and the sounds that contain the voice make this reaction stronger.

"English children will react more strongly when listening to English than listening to French," - Vouloumanos said - "and French children react more strongly when listening to French than Russian."

Children recognize their native language, when spoken by their mother and when others speak. For those with mothers who are fluent in two languages, they have similar reactions when listening to both - according to Janet Werket - an expert from the University of British Columbia.