The mother's womb acoustic environment: Study of the original sounds and replication for pre-term infants

Abstract

An experimental study of the physical phenomena that regulated the sound propagation inside the human body and the amniotic fluid was carried out, by analysing the acoustic climate inside the uterus of pregnant women. The aim of this work was to reproduce the original sounds that a fetus can hear inside the mother's womb, as faithfully as possible, in order to provide preterm neonates the rich acoustic stimuli they would otherwise be deprived of. This work describes a natural and new method in the field of new-born care programs which assists early new-born development. The method involves the replication of the intrauterine acoustical environment of the mother which may play an important role in new-born development, especially those born pre-term.