The vaginal sound system for your fetus
The Babypod
Author: Professor Joyce Harper
A device has been made to play music to the fetus.
“Babypod is a device that stimulates before birth through music. With Babypod, babies learn to vocalize from the womb”
I am a bit confused by the video on their web site. It says that music has been shown to stimulate the fetus but that the fetus cannot hear it because music cannot travel through the tissues. Isn’t that contradictory?
The pod is inserted into the vaginal and connected to the music system. They say there is evidence that music improves brain development of the fetus and also improves fertilisation rates in IVF. I will read up more about this.
Read more:
http://www.engadget.com/2015/12/31/give-your-fetus-a-concert-with-vaginal-sound-system-babypod/
Image credit: http://www.babypod.net/
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Mothers have to suffer enough being pregnant – not sure sitting around with one of these up your vaginal is going too far? And I have been wondering about surrogacy – the fetus will not hear their parents voices as much as a normal fetus. Maybe this is the answer?
Surely, if babies hear their parents’ voices – and music – through the abdomen wall (and I’m pretty sure that there’s evidence for that) why does anything need to be played to them via the mother’s vagina? Through a speaker would be best so that the volume can be monitored by the mother?
It amazes me what people will think up next!!
I completely agree, Fran. There is zero need for any interference with the vagina during pregnancy unless there is a clinical indication. In which case a trained clinician would examine under sterile conditions. I feel this is dangerous as it will not be sterile and could cause all manner of complications.
A note from Professor Eric Jauniaux – an obstetrician: The baby pod is the craziest idea I have seen in a long time. No only they got their scientific facts wrong about development of the feral ear but inserting a speaker producing sound over 50 decibels is potentially damaging for the foetal brain not to mention the risk of pushing into the cervix and risks of infection. It makes me cry that they are selling this to the public.