What does the baby feel in the belly?
What the baby feels in the mother's belly is a question that parents often ask themselves during pregnancy and which, thanks to science, has increasingly precise answers.
The most important things to remember are that everything that the mother does during the 40 weeks of gestation has an amplified repercussion on the fetus in particular on her brain, that the unborn child, being immersed in amniotic fluid, can be influenced by what the mother eats. , stimulating his taste and smell, and that stress, nervousness and fights are bad for the square.
The fetus hears the heartbeat and the voice of the mother.
From the first weeks of pregnancy, the fetus is able to perceive sensations and stimuli of various kinds. The first sound perceived is the heartbeat of the mother, which will accompany him throughout his intrauterine life. The baby's hearing begins to develop as early as the sixth week, which is why it is important to speak to the baby in the belly: the voice of the mother and father will already constitute a familiar and reassuring sound universe during the prenatal life.
How the fetus reacts to acoustic stimuli
If the taste buds and smell receptors form around week 8 and appear to start functioning after week 20 and the eyelids open around week 26, the fetal hearing system develops around week 35. The fetus can barely hear the noise coming from the outside mainly due to the amniotic fluid and the placenta that act as an acoustic damper.
The fetus feels the tactile stimuli.
According to a study published in Plos One in 2015, as pregnancy progresses, the reactions of the fetus to the touch of the hand and a probe are increasingly intense. However, they do not always react to a tactile stimulus. For example, if we give a push on the bottom of the fetus, there will be those who will turn and those who will not, as well as the responses to the inversion for external maneuvers performed when the fetus is breech.
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