Maternal exposure to music and fetal activity

Zimmer, E.Z.; Divon, Michael Y.; Vilensky, A.; Sarna, Z.; Peretz, B.A.; Paldi, E

doi:10.1016/0028-2243(82)90101-0

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“…A few authors agree on the fact that human fetuses perceive their mother's emotions. Fetuses increase their movements and decrease their respiration rates when their mother listens to music, and particularly when their mother likes that sound (Zimmer et al, 1982). An instantaneous cognitive stress perceived by the mother (through a cognitive task) enhances her fetus's heart rate variability whereas a more constant maternal stress (evidenced by a high level of cortisol) induces higher motor activity (DiPietro, Costigan, & Gurewitsch, 2003;DiPietro, Kivlighan, Costigan, & Laudenslager, 2009).…”

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The human newborn’s umwelt: Unexplored pathways and perspectives

et al. 2017

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Historically, newborns, and especially premature newborns, were thought to "feel nothing." However, over the past decades, a growing body of evidence has shown that newborns are aware of their environment, but the extent and the onset of some sensory capacities remain largely unknown. The goal of this review is to update our current knowledge concerning newborns' perceptual world and how ready they are to cope with an entirely different sensory environment following birth. We aim to establish not only how and when each sensory ability arises during the pre-/postbirth period but also discuss how senses are studied. We conclude that although many studies converge to show that newborns are clearly sentient beings, much is still unknown. Further, we identify a series of internal and external factors that could explain discrepancies between studies, and we propose perspectives for future studies. Finally, through examples from animal studies, we illustrate the importance of this detailed knowledge to pursue the enhancement of newborns' daily living conditions. Indeed, this is a prerequisite for assessing the effects of the physical environment and routine procedures on newborns' welfare.

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The human newborn’s umwelt: Unexplored pathways and perspectives

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“…Zimmer et al [49] used real-time ultrasound scanning and reported a significant decrease in fetal breathing movements and a trend toward an increase in body movements while mothers were listening to their preferred type of music.…”

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Fetal response to induced maternal emotions

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Nishitani

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et al. 2010

J Physiol Sci

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This study investigated the relationship between fetal movements and acute maternal emotional changes during pregnancy. Two empirically validated feature film clips were used for the external generation of two subjectively and facially well-characterized target emotions: happiness and sadness. We simultaneously monitored separate fetal arm, leg and trunk movements by means 2 of two ultrasound apparatuses while maternal emotions were manipulated by film clip presentation. The number of fetal arm movements, but not the duration, was increased when pregnant women were being shown a happy film. Both the number and the duration of fetal arm movements decreased with the sad film presentation. Neither the presentation of happiness nor the presentation of sadness affected fetal leg or trunk movements. These findings suggest that induced emotions in pregnant women primarily affect arm movements of their fetuses, and that positive and negative emotions have the opposite effects on fetus movement.

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“…and it has been suggested that this effect is mediated by antenatal alterations in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (Schneider & Coe, 1993). In women, perceived stress during pregnancy is correlated with ACTH levels (Sandman et al, 1994), and several small studies and anecdotal reports suggest that maternal emotional state is associated with fetal behavior in a manner consistent with activation of this axis (Van den Bergh et al, 1989;Zimmer et al, 1982).…”

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Fetal Neurobehavioral Development

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The ontogeny of fetal autonomic, motoric, state, and interactive functioning was investigated longitudinally in a sample of 31 healthy fetuses from 20 weeks through term. Fetal heart rate and movement data were collected during 50 min of doppler-based fetal monitoring at 6 gestational ages. Measures of fetal heart rate and variability, activity level and vigor, behavioral state, and reactivity were derived from these digitized data. Weighted least squares analyses were conducted to model the developmental patterns and to examine the role of maternal and fetal covariates. With advancing gestation, fetuses displayed slower heart rate, increased heart rate variability, reduced but more vigorous motor behavior, coalescence of heart rate and movement patterns into distinct behavioral states, and increasing cardiac responsivity to stimulation. Male fetuses were more active than female fetuses, and greater maternal stress appraisal was associated with reduced fetal heart variability. An apparent period of neurobehavioral transition exists between 28 and 32 weeks. Fetal research methods are evaluated.

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Maternal exposure to music and fetal activity

Cited by 29 publications

References 15 publications

The human newborn’s umwelt: Unexplored pathways and perspectives

The human newborn’s umwelt: Unexplored pathways and perspectives

Fetal response to induced maternal emotions

Fetal Neurobehavioral Development

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