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Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later?

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Patnou@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Neither will harm or effect your baby in any measurable way.

    What will effect them measurably negatively is having obsessive parents who min/max every decision rather than being happy and enjoying their child.

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    • s38b35M5@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      *affect

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      • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Happiness comes from.acceptance, not obsession.

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      • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I think people are downvoting you because there are two "effect"s in there.

        The first is right, the second is wrong.

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I really don’t believe either of those things will do anything at all.

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    • Kache@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The content likely doesn’t matter, but I read it helps the baby recognize the parent’s voices, and it can also help them get a head start on recognizing the phenomes of your language.

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        So my baby will think Mike Duncan is his father because of all the History of Rome podcast he is listening to

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      • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If it’s a recording of someone else it sure as hell won’t. Might have some effect on replay, but won’t be making baby any more familiar with the parents.

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  • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Beep Boop, nothing to see here 🤖

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  • Nemo@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s mostly about the sound of your voice. My eldest got Vonnegut and Law & Order. So much of the latter that both before and after birth the “dun dun” sound from the show noticeably calmed her down.

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    • EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’ve shared the real life hack.

      My kid was born with a love for the opening theme to “Star Trek: Enterprise”, because we were bringe watching it while the kid was in the womb.

      Playing “Faith of the Heart” came in handy when the kid started teething.

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  • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It doesn’t matter. A baby doesn’t understand what you read to it. It only hears you voice and regocnizes it once they’re born. But it’llhear your voice in the belly regardless. Every time you say anyyhing, the baby hears your voice. Reading a book to a belly is mostly for the parents-to-be

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  • Apepollo11@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. The baby doesn’t understand English (although they can recognise the rhythm and sounds of language).

    2. The mother understands English

    3. The baby experiences the same emotions as the mother.

    In conclusion, read something that will make the mother relaxed and happy. If that happens to be The Cat In The Hat, then great. I read Don Quixote when my wife was pregnant with our first, our second got Moomin and Hairy Maclary (by virtue of being there when I read to the first).

    The most important thing is to keep reading to them, every day, after they’re born too. Buy tons of children’s books (for your own sanity), do the voices and have fun with them.

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  • ech@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The content doesn’t matter in the slightest.

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  • Steve@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reading to a baby is about exposing them to different words and patterns than what you get from normal speech.

    If you want my advice, talk to them constantly as if you are the narrator, and smile and make eye contact at every opportunity.

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    • viking@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not sure if this applies before birth.

      Please demonstrate the prenatal eye contact, I dare you.

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      • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hold my beer, I’m going in

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    • EnsignWashout@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      If you want my advice, talk to them constantly as if you are the narrator, and smile and make eye contact at every opportunity.

      This is great advice.

      I’ve always done this, and my kids all started talking surprisingly early.

      But my motive is just that it calms them.

      Some baby fussiness comes from insecurity, and I find that a running narration makes them more relaxed about being set down and returned to - that kind of thing.

      Basically they get the same comfort from my narration as I get from leaving the TV running when I’m alone in the house.

      I don’t know (or worry about) if it really makes any serious long term difference - but it was occasionally convenient as heck when they could tell me what they wanted a bit earlier than I (or anyone) expected them to.

      With my last kid, I felt more brave and also mixed in some singing, and think they are more musically inclined because of it.

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      • Steve@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Im 100% sure it makes a difference.

        Both of my kids were communicating with body language by like 6 weeks. For example I could say “do you want a bottle?” And they would get all excited, or not, if they werent hungry. Part of this is that you have to pay attention to them and respond. The feedback is what helps them learn fast, which they cant get from TV.

        (I dint have anything anything against TV, just saying its not a substitute for human interaction)

        They are 4 and 7 now and both have a surprisingly large vocabulary and speak clearly.

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Heavy metal, obviously.

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  • TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A kid in the womb is better off listening to old people’s regrets and dying wishes so they can handle dying of old age better when the time comes

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I really hope kids in the womb today get the chance to die of old age.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      baby is inundated with ‘back in my day’, [redacted] ruined everything, complaints about life sucking ass, etc

      9 months pass

      baby pops out

      immediately uses all their strength to jump to the nearest window ledge and yeet

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  • vala@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wat

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I remember my mother telling me that if I don’t get staright A’s, she was gonna regret it, and my dad told me: “Don’t make me regret fucking your mom last night”. I spend the next 9 months planning for school, and the next 18 years trying so hard to be top of my class. Never had any fun. Wtf even is this “video game” y’all talking about. -10/10 would not recommend.

    Please don’t berate your fetus into depression, it’s not worth it. Instead, play baby fetus shark.

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  • SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Kids don’t live in wombs

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    • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not with that attitude.

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  • sprite0@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I read to my child every night while they were in the womb and when they came out my reading voice was like drugs it would knock them out so quickly if they were sleepy!

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why would you do this when you could just as easily have them listen to WeFunk! Radio, the funkiest internet radio around, for free?

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Just talk to the baby and play them calm music. The type may matter but what is most important is you interact in some way.

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.

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  • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Neither abort the future slave.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Music of any type would be infinitely more impactful than random words.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think we’re at that stage. People are still debating whether or not that kid is a kid or not.

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    • khannie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      My wife had a favourite song when she was pregnant and it was very useful for calming after the birth. It was quite a chill tune.

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  • DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fwiw, my mom had a similar debate and decided classical music instead. Came from some company called baby beethoven. So I’m biased but I think music is probably best. Words won’t really be understood anyway just tones. No angry sounds around baby.

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  • nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Cat in the Hat. Kid’s got a while life ahead of them to get depressed about the vile things humans have done (and still do) to each other. Let the kid have a few months of happiness.

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  • Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Jonathan Swift

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  • Oka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    [This one](history of the entire world, i guess - YouTube share.google/U53Gi0gPSutmP87Qg)

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