Babies Attain Learning and Smell Sense before Birth
The baby's brain starts to develop during pregnancy and continues forming till
early adulthood. Thus, like any other organ, it needs a strong foundation. The
brain comprises of numerous different areas that controls all the things we do-
from walking, hearing, to how we feel and take decisions.
Sense of Learning - Babies start to use majority of their senses to collect
information of the world around them which makes them well prepared for the
life ahead. Prenatal learning ability covers the wide area of smells, tastes, and
sight. The flavors tend to pass through the amniotic fluids to the prenate.
Sense of Language- It assists prenates to get familiarized with their native
language. In an experiment, it was found that the prenate sucked deeply when
the prenate heard speech sounds rather than non-speech sounds. This confirms
the fact that language learning starts within the womb. Similarly in another
experiment, the babies who were exposed to nursery rhymes in the womb
responded intensely to a changed melody than the ones who were not
familiarized to the rhymes. Thus, an expecting mother should cautiously choose
the sounds she is hearing for her baby's optimal dvelopment.
Sense of Smell- Smell is the most progressive sense that a baby has at birth. This
helps your baby to attach to you. It further improves digestion. The baby's nose
begins to develop from the 6th week and get fully-developed by the 15th week.
Nose has fine hair which acts as nerves that transmit messages to the brain. In
an experiment, when babies were introduced to different odors on cotton swab,
they reacted by either disliking or appreciating the odors. Each baby reacted to
the pleasant odor with satisfaction and was repelled at an intolerable smell.
Therefore, this restates the fact that a baby begins to develop the sense of smell
in the mother's womb. Such studies highlight the presence of sense of learning
in the unborn babies.
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