"For Kristine Atom and her son Kieran, afternoon time often starts with reading. But the sound of Mom's voice has already done more than spark his imagination. It may have helped develop it. "My oldest child was actually also premature," Atom said. "So this is our second premature baby and was in the NICU for I think basically up until his due date.""
"The team recorded mothers of premature infants reading from the classic children's book, Paddington Bear. Dr. Scala says the goal was to play the mom's voices for the premature infants several hours a night, to reproduce the same experience unborn infants normally get during the final months in their mother's womb."
""We know that babies can hear from about 24 weeks of gestation, so it's interesting that this predates when the baby is actually born," Dr. Scala said. That's when unborn babies perform a kind of neurological eavesdropping that babies born prematurely might miss out on."
A clinical trial at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital recorded mothers of premature infants reading the children's book Paddington Bear and played those recordings to infants overnight. The recordings aimed to replicate prenatal auditory exposure that normally occurs during the final months of gestation. Fetuses can hear from about 24 weeks, developing familiarity with maternal voice and language that premature infants may miss. The trial used MRI scans to compare brain development in infants exposed to maternal recordings with a control group, with the intervention intended to support neural development in the NICU.
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