Mexico Medical Student |

I think this is totally cool:

On their little heads, the newborns in the maternity ward are wearing stereo headphones and their tiny hands seem to move to the rhythm of the music. From the first hours of their lives, the babies are tuned into Mozart at the Kosica-Saca hospital in eastern Slovakia.

“In the womb, the baby listens to the mother’s heart beat which represents a source of protection and good feelings. We have the baby listen to music so he can recall his mother during the period immediately after the birth when he is not with her,” [the doctor] said.

I’d probably stunt my kids growth with Shostakovich or Prokofiev, since I’m obviously into 20th century Russian music. Mother’s heatbeat, Stalin-regime-induced percussion, same difference.