Nourishing Baby With Sound
ByWe experience the world through our senses.
This applies to baby too. And by the second trimester, your baby’s hearing apparatus is well developed (Deepak Chopra in ‘Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives’).
Sound can soothe and calm us, delight or scare us.
Each sound is accompanied by a cascade of chemicals that reflect mother’s emotional state.
So well before baby can actually ‘hear’, he is feeling the impact of the noises you hear in his body.
You can use this information intentionally, by deliberately listening to music you love, singing a favourite tune, reading aloud words that inspire you and tuning into sounds of nature that lift your soul.
You can continue this practice after birth and when breastfeeding too.
In this way, you are introducing your baby to the wonder of sound while modelling very effective ways of cultivating a sense of calm and peace that will nourish him in utero and outside.
In harmony,
Deirdre Morris
