Does Mozart really work?

My New Life

Kate Garlinge

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4.7 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The so-called “Mozart effect” first entered the public conscience in the early 90s. The theory states that listening to classical music while pregnant, will make your baby smarter. We talk a lot about how babies become smarter on My New Life, so host Jessica Rolph figured she better dig into this theory. Here to give us a straight answer is Dr. Thomas Dardarian. He is an OB-GYN at Axia Women's Health and past president of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

Key Takeaways:

[1:45] Does playing Mozart while pregnant make our babies smarter?

[2:47] What can we extrapolate from evidence of new neurons generated in chicks and rats exposed to music in utero?

[4:33] What about other sounds? When does a baby start to hear sounds outside the belly?

[5:24] Does does talking and singing to the baby in the womb make a difference?

[7:06] Where does Dr. Dardarian come down on regularly reading to a baby in utero?

[8:36] What about repetitive prenatal reading of a single story? Can that have an impact?

[9:52] Is there danger in exposing your unborn child to loud of music or other loud sounds?

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0:00.0	Parenthood is a time of so much change for you and your baby.
0:13.8	A little reliable information can go a long way towards making this new life a good life.
0:20.1	I'm Jessica Rolfe and this is my new life,
0:24.1	a love every podcast. While the science aligns on what's healthy for a baby's brain development,
0:30.1	when it comes to how to care for our babies, there's a seemingly endless supply of competing
0:35.0	perspectives. Parents are swimming in advice on sleep, feeding,
0:39.7	parenting philosophies. In this season of the podcast, we aim to provide a variety of curated
0:46.2	perspectives so you can make informed choices for your family.
0:59.0	The so-called Mozart effect first entered the public conscience in the early 90s.
1:04.3	The theory goes that listening to classical music while pregnant will make your baby smarter.
1:09.0	Since we spent a lot of time talking about how babies become smarter on My New Life,
1:11.0	we figured we better dig into this theory and get it straight once and for all. Here to eliminate us on the effects of playing Mozart
1:16.9	to your baby in utero is Dr. Thomas Dardarian. He is an OBGYN at Axia Women's Health
1:23.6	and past president of the American College of Osteopathic Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
1:30.0	Welcome, Dr. Dardarian.
1:32.4	Good afternoon, and thank you so very much for having me.
1:35.5	So I would love to jump right into it.
1:37.7	Can you give it to a straight?
1:39.0	We've seen images of moms with a headphones strapped to their bellies.
1:42.8	Does playing Mozart while pregnant make our babies smarter? Honestly, the short answer is we don't know. The data is really
1:55.5	inconclusive. There were some early studies that looked at college age students. There were some studies that looked at kids who were in elementary school
2:05.6	and even some studies looking at rats exposed to classical music
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