When should I listen to prenatal music
Release time : 09/10/2025 09:30:01
Prenatal education has increasingly been recognized by expectant parents, and music prenatal education is the top choice for many mothers.
Pleasant music can make pregnant women's hormones produce more beneficial for fetal growth and development, making them healthy, alert, cheerful, and intelligent.
When should music be played during fetal development? There are various methods of fetal education, but music is one of the most common.
Let's take a moment to explore the concept of fetal education music. When is it appropriate to listen?
1. From the day of pregnancy confirmation, music education can be started. It is better to listen to light music in the home, which should not contain lyrics.
Pregnant women should relax their whole bodies, either in a comfortable position, such as lying on their back or sitting in a rocking chair. They should place their hands on the abdomen to observe fetal movements, and quietly listen to music played by indoor speakers or headphones.
It is best to forget what is in front of you, and let your emotions fly with the beautiful music! 2. After 5 months of pregnancy, I started listening to music with my fetus.
You can choose your own time to listen to music, after coming home from work every day, before going to bed every night, or every morning.
It is best to alternate two pieces of music, repeating them can train the fetus's memory. You must be fully engaged with the fetus while listening, which will yield good prenatal education.
3. Not all music can be accepted by fetuses.
The fetus likes to listen to music that is in tune with the fetal sound in the womb, such as beautiful Western European classical music.
In the music of Bach and Mozart, there is a part that is connected to the rhythm of human life. It is a periodic wave sound like the gurgling of a river. It is similar to the Alpha wave in the brain and the pattern of heartbeat fluctuations. It is easy to be accepted by fetuses and pregnant women.
In this way, the purpose of musical prenatal education can be truly achieved.
However, the sound of the music should not be too strong, the frequency should not be too frequent, and the time should not be too long.
The volume should be 75-80 decibels. Listen twice a day for 20-30 minutes each time.
Exciting music with strong rhythm and large changes in rhythm, such as rock, disco, jazz, or sad and sad slow four-step jazz dance music, requiem, or sharp, thin, high-profile music, or too strong music, is not suitable for prenatal education music.
4. The unborn fetus already exhibits different personalities.
Some are active, some are quiet.
If the fetus is lively and active, listen to more music with beautiful and pleasant timbre, gentle and gentle rhythm, and imagination, such as Bach's "Mass in B Minor" and Schubert's "Serenade"; if the fetus is quiet and inactive, you should listen to more light and lively music, such as "Spring" in Vivaldi's cello concerto "The Four Seasons".
It is best to let them listen to music suitable for the fetus many times. Repeated sound waves can be continuously strengthened to promote the development of the right brain.
5. Pregnant women can sing lyrical songs softly while doing housework in the kitchen every day.
A pregnant woman sings to the fetus, which is equivalent to a prenatal immunity and can provide an important memory mark for the fetus.
Of course, it would be best to choose a song that is very much enjoyed by pregnant women, as singing it with such passion will make the emotion very authentic, and also makes it easy to sing it out.
6. The fetus also greatly enjoys Dad's deep and resonant voice.
Therefore, it is best for the expectant father to spend time with his wife singing or reciting nursery rhymes for the fetus.
In such a musical atmosphere, the fetus can communicate with its parents who are not present, thereby shortening the distance between their hearts and fostering a more harmonious and congenial relationship.
Regularly listening to your parents' singing can make the fetus feel warmth and security, thus promoting mental tranquility and harmonious resonance between mother and child.
To establish a solid psychological foundation for developing a cheerful, open-minded, and enthusiastic personality from birth.
How to listen to fetal music? There are many ways to use fetal music.
Since people's cultural level, endowment quality, appreciation level and living environment can not be the same, some pregnant women like music, while others are not interested in it.
Therefore, when it comes to inducing fetal development through music, there is no one-size-fits-all approach or method.
So, how should we listen to fetal music? 1. Mother-Singing Fetal Listening Method: The pregnant woman hums songs she loves that are beneficial to both herself and the fetus, infecting the fetus.
When singing, it is important to focus on the fetus in the womb. The purpose is to sing for the fetus, allowing oneself to express emotions and inner sentiments while creating beautiful music.
This is an excellent form of music for fetal development, suitable for every pregnant woman.
2. Mother-to-Child Singing Method: When the pregnant woman chooses a piece of music, she sings a line and then thinks to herself that her child will learn to sing within her womb.
Although the fetus cannot sing, it can be educated early through full play of imagination and "communication".
This method is very effective because it fully utilizes the "communication" way of mother and child.
3. The method of infusing musical instruments, developed by British psychologist Algy, is a type of music fetal education.
Musical fetal indoctrination can be achieved by using a device. A mini loudspeaker can be prepared. The speaker is placed on the belly of the pregnant woman. When the music is played, it is gently moved to continuously pour beautiful music through the mother's belly and into the baby.
During use, it is important to be mindful that when moving the speaker towards the abdomen, it should be done gently and slowly. It is also not advisable to play the music for an extended period of time as it may cause the fetus to become too tired.
Generally, it is appropriate to practice for 5 to 10 minutes per session.
4. Music Induction Method: This method is primarily suitable for pregnant women who are fond of music and have an aptitude for appreciating it.
People with musical cultivation, upon hearing music, enter the world of music and their emotions and feelings become pleasant, tranquil, and relaxed.
Pregnant women can appreciate music pieces and listen to soft music daily. By engaging in this process of appreciating and listening, they can transfer their emotions through the music, allowing for a musing and hopeful outlook on the fetus. They may immerse themselves in the enchanting beauty of a river flowing with spring water or wander through the tranquility of a bamboo grove covered in green rain, living in a world of wonder. This can lead to excellent prenatal education.
5. Recitation and Emotional Expression Method involves reading poems or lyrics aloud while accompanied by music, which is also a very effective form of prenatal music.
Modern parenting music is also developing in this direction.
In a set of prenatal education music, instrumental music, songs and reading aloud echo each other. It is beautiful, smooth, eloquent, and achieves an orderly harmony and unity. It has a good emotional expression effect and can bring beautiful enjoyment to pregnant women and the fetus.
There are many musical prenatal education methods suitable for pregnant women. Each pregnant woman can adopt corresponding prenatal education music methods according to her specific situation.
How often should fetal music be listened to? Fetal music can help expectant mothers relax, feel happy, and ensure a safe pregnancy, resulting in the birth of a healthy baby.
However, mothers should be aware that while listening to music for baby-rearing is beneficial, it's important not to listen for too long. So, how often should you play the music? According to experts, it's best to play the music once or twice a day, lasting 15 to 20 minutes each time, preferably during the moments when the fetus is awake and active.
It is generally advisable to play the recorder at night before bedtime, which can be done directly through the recorder. The recorder should be positioned about 1 meter away from the pregnant woman, and the sound intensity should be between 65 decibels and 70 decibels.
Telescopic sound transmitters can also be used, placed directly on the corresponding area of the fetal head at the maternal abdomen wall. The volume of the sound can be adjusted according to the intensity of sound heard by an adult through the palm of their hand, which is equivalent to the intensity of sound that the fetus can hear inside the uterus.
For pregnant women with thicker abdominal walls, the volume of sound can be slightly increased; for those with thinner abdominal walls, the volume should be appropriately reduced.
By the fourth month of pregnancy, expectant mothers should be able to feel their baby's movements, gradually becoming more active.
At this stage, music is used for fetal education. The baby will develop a habit of recognizing familiar sounds and will engage in emotional communication with parents through music. Each time they hear those familiar tunes, the baby becomes excited and communicates through active fetal movements to alert the parents.
The rhythm of the music for fetal education should be smooth and fluent, without lyrics. The emotional tone of the music should be gentle and sweet. The expectant mother can experience the content of the music through her imagination and achieve a pleasant mood, thereby regulating her mental state and enhancing the effectiveness of the fetal education.
What music should be chosen for fetal education? Fetal education music is a very popular method of fetal education, mainly divided into two types: one is for the mother to listen to, and the other is for the fetus to enjoy.
Therefore, when selecting baby-song music, it is crucial to exercise caution; otherwise, it could adversely affect the baby's hearing.
Music is a vast category, not all music can bring benefits to the fetus's physical and mental health. Different types of music can have different effects on people's psychological behavior.
So, how to choose the music for baby's brain? If you hope your future baby is gentle and quiet in personality, you can choose more slow-paced songs.
2. If you hope your future baby is enthusiastic and full of vitality, you may appropriately choose more songs that are fast-paced, light, and elastic.
Fulfilling and scientifically-based prenatal education courses can effectively stimulate fetal brain development.
3. When focusing on one style, it is necessary to intersperse and contrast two musical forms appropriately.
The best include light music, children's songs, stories, and the sounds of nature.
Based on the characteristics of different developmental stages in babies, parenting should be tailored accordingly.
4. The music selected must have the sound accurately controlled within a safe range of less than 60 decibels and less than 2000Hz.
5. Babies enjoy the gentle and low-frequency sounds of their fathers during parenting, so when fathers narrate stories to their babies during prenatal education, it not only fosters communication between fathers and sons but also provides comforting care and positive emotions for pregnant mothers.
6. Record the baby's voice and play it back repeatedly to evoke a conditioned response in the baby, stimulating the development of brain nerves and achieving fetal education effects.
Using these methods to choose music can yield different effects.
The duration of music played for the fetus should not be excessive, generally between 5 to 10 minutes.
Music fetal education generally starts from six months, as early as four months. Because the fetus's hearing is only mature enough at four months.
Is prenatal education music really useful? With the progress of society, more and more expectant parents pay great attention to the education of the fetus from the beginning of pregnancy.
A pregnant mother listens to music at home. Can the fetus really hear it? In fact, the answer is yes.
The music that a pregnant mother can hear can also be heard by the fetus.
So is prenatal education music really useful? "The Beginnings of Music: The Origin and Development of Musical Ability" published by Oxford University Press introduces the latest research results. The book writes that although the fetus's ears do not have a complete appearance until 28 weeks of pregnancy, sounds may be heard from the third month.
I have also conducted a large number of experiments in medicine to prove that the fetus already has quite developed hearing ability in the 20th-24th week of pregnancy. When it hears external sounds, its heart beats faster or slower.
For the fetal brain, the best spiritual food is music.
Music prenatal education is the second prenatal education method ranked by pregnant mothers in addition to fetal talks.
When playing music that pregnant mother likes, not only will the pregnant mother feel happy, but the fetus will also appreciate it with gusto, and the mood will also become happy. Sometimes it can directly touch the person's heart and soothe the person more than words. effect.
After five months of pregnancy, the fetus's brain is already quite developed, with the number of brain cells close to the 14 billion of adults. Giving it a certain stimulus at this time can increase the number of circuits connecting cells, thus having a significant effect on brain development.
Hearing plays a full role in helping fetal brain development, which is precisely a reason that can prove the importance of musical prenatal education.
Music can stimulate the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for various senses. As long as you continue to listen to music, your imagination and creativity will increase.
After more than 5 months of pregnancy, pregnant women can use sound waves to stimulate the fetus's hearing organs. This is the so-called musical prenatal education.
However, never place the radio directly on the abdominal wall of a pregnant woman for the fetus to listen to, because the fetus's auditory nerve is still relatively fragile. If the music is too loud or too close, it may harm the fetus's hearing.
Therefore, when pregnant women perform musical prenatal education, it is best to choose some melodies with a peaceful rhythm, smooth and soothing rhythm, and the sound intensity is appropriate at 500 to 1,500 Hz, such as some piano music, famous ancient songs, and the sounds of nature. It is best to choose prenatal education music approved by the Medical Eugenics Society, rather than using too exciting music such as disco and rock music.
Moreover, it should be about 2 meters away from the slightly, 2 to 3 times a day, for 15 to 20 minutes each time. You can choose to do it during fetal movement, which is generally more appropriate before going to sleep at night.
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