Why would you do this when you could just as easily have them listen to WeFunk! Radio, the funkiest internet radio around, for free?
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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The baby doesn’t understand English (although they can recognise the rhythm and sounds of language).
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The mother understands English
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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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The content doesn’t matter in the slightest.
Kids don’t live in wombs
Not with that attitude.
Jonathan Swift
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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!
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
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
I really hope kids in the womb today get the chance to die of old age.
I really don’t believe either of those things will do anything at all.
The content likely doesn’t matter, but I read it helps the baby recognize the parent’s voices (esp the Dad’s, Momv already gets a lot of time), and it can also help them get a head start on recognizing the phenomes of your language.
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So my baby will think Mike Duncan is his father because of all the History of Rome podcast is being played to him
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.
I don’t think we’re at that stage. People are still debating whether or not that kid is a kid or not.
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.
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
