Hey, guys, welcome to PrevLine's podcast.

This is Sarah.

And today I have the pleasure of speaking again to Pam Fallon.

You guys know her for our previous episode of learning to read, but today we're talking about

from infant literacy. Pam Allen is the founder, CEO of Dewey. She's a leading literacy expert.

She's an author. She's an advocate for children and for reading education. We're so excited

to have her back and tune in. Welcome, Pam. We are so excited to have her back and tune it. Welcome, Pam. We are so excited to

have you back and we today are talking about womb to one year, the baby years. So excited to be here

again. I love your podcast and so happy to talk to all the network of great families that you

have participating.

Well, we're a big fan of you as always.

And I off-air listeners had just updated Pam about my own life with my reading and challenges of things.

So to let you know, like, we're all in this together to say that.

But Pam, I remember when I was pregnant and I want want you to speak on this, and they're like,

start reading to the baby in the wound, you know, day one, start reading. And I thought, really?

You know, what is this? And I think we're missing a huge benefit of reading out loud, which, by the way,

it is going to be reading out loud on day February 5th.

So this is perfect timing to kind of dive into the importance of starting when you're pregnant in that first year of life.

You know what? I know it might sound kind of funny because obviously they're not here yet with us,

but it actually really does matter.

Because when you read aloud, even your cadence, your tone, the way that you're engaging

with a story is actually different. So in the womb, there's a reverberation of your voice

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