{"id":186030,"date":"2018-07-31T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=186030"},"modified":"2018-07-31T14:51:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T19:51:33","slug":"babies-cat-in-the-hat-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/babies-cat-in-the-hat-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazing TED Talk: Babies who hear &#8216;The Cat in the Hat&#8217; in womb recognize it after birth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abortionprocedures.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abortion<\/a> advocates frequently try to deny preborn children of their own humanity, often referring to these babies as &#8220;clumps of cells,&#8221; mere &#8220;tissue,&#8221; or &#8220;products of conception.&#8221; But this is nothing less than a complete denial of science; after all, the humanity of the preborn child is an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/12-amazing-facts-prove-preborn-humanity-first-trimester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">established scientific fact<\/a>. And one\u00a0TED Talk given by journalist and former senior editor of &#8220;Psychology Today&#8221; Annie Murphy Paul is a perfect example of the amazing knowledge we now have about how preborn babies develop in the womb. Paul explained how babies are able to learn &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/annie_murphy_paul_what_we_learn_before_we_re_born\/transcript?referrer=playlist-talks_by_fierce_moms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">even before they are born<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"max-width: 640px;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; height: 0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/annie_murphy_paul_what_we_learn_before_we_re_born\" width=\"854\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the talk, Paul discusses when humans begin learning. Many people likely assume it isn&#8217;t until after birth &#8212; but this is not true, she explains, according to the new scientific study of fetal origins. Take hearing, for example. It&#8217;s known that preborn babies are able to begin hearing around 18 weeks of pregnancy. But they learn from <em>what<\/em> they hear&#8230; and they remember, too. Preborn babies remember the sound of their mother&#8217;s voice, and even express a preference for it. They even recognize passages from books read to them during pregnancy, or snippets of songs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[A]fter women repeatedly read aloud a section of Dr. Seuss&#8217; &#8216;The Cat in the Hat&#8217; while they were pregnant, their newborn babies recognized that passage when they heard it outside the womb,&#8221; Paul explained. &#8220;My favorite experiment of this kind is the one that showed that the babies of women who watched a certain soap opera every day during pregnancy recognized the theme song of that show once they were born.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/first-trimester-babies-complex\/\">READ: <em>First trimester babies aren&#8217;t blobs of tissue &#8212; they&#8217;re amazingly complex<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Babies also learn language while in the womb. Paul says, &#8220;&#8230; [F]etuses are even learning about the particular language that&#8217;s spoken in the world they&#8217;ll be born into.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A study published last year found that from birth, from the moment of birth, babies cry in the accent of their mother&#8217;s native language. French babies cry on a rising note while German babies end on a falling note, imitating the melodic contours of those languages&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>From the moment of birth, the baby responds most to the voice of the person who is most likely to care for it &#8212; its mother. It even makes its cries sound like the mother&#8217;s language, which may further endear the baby to the mother, and which may give the baby a head start in the critical task of learning how to understand and speak its native language.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Paul also explained how preborn babies even learn their senses of taste and smell while still in the mother&#8217;s womb, remembering and preferring the foods their mothers ate during pregnancy. Babies whose mothers experienced PTSD after going through a traumatic event &#8212; like women who were pregnant and in New York City during 9\/11 &#8212; were also born with a biological susceptibility to PTSD themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bHe8YGPGzj4\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While abortion activists work hard to deny the humanity of preborn babies, Paul&#8217;s TED Talk, along with other information we already know, proves that regardless of whether they are an embryo, a fetus, or a newborn, children in the womb\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/12-amazing-facts-prove-preborn-humanity-first-trimester\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are human beings<\/a>. Preborn babies have their own unique DNA, from the moment of fertilization. Organs begin developing within a mere two to three weeks; the baby&#8217;s heart begins beating as early as <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/babys-heart-begins-to-beat-as-early-as-16-days-after-conception-study-finds\/\">16 days<\/a> after conception. A preborn baby at six weeks will react to touch, and brain waves can be detected.<\/p>\n<p>These are living people, who deserve to be protected from abortion. They are the most vulnerable people among us, and they have the right to continue their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abortion advocates frequently try to deny preborn children of their own humanity, often referring to these babies as &#8220;clumps of cells,&#8221; mere &#8220;tissue,&#8221; or &#8220;products of conception.&#8221; But this is nothing less than a complete denial of science; after all, the humanity of the preborn child is an established scientific fact. 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