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PREGNANT WOMEN

"The desire to communicate starts thanks to the mother’s voice, which is perceived with a precociously conceived ear. It operates from the first weeks of prenatal life".

Alfred A. Tomatis

How can one have any interest in preparing to give birth under the electronic ear?

Recent research on foetal life has reinforced the theory which tries to promote the presence of a very intense psychic and sensorial life in the foetus. This theory, which is now commonly accepted, was first mentioned by Alfred A. Tomatis.

It is also admitted that the foetus hears from the first months of prenatal life and that its first sensorial experiences provide it with a lot of memories thus accumulated.

The ear starts to form within the first days of life as an embryo. At three weeks, it is already a vesicle, which will become the inner ear by four and a half months. However, this ear cannot perceive any sound. The ear works as a filter; it suppresses the low registers from 2000 Hertz.

Let us take for example the mother’s voice and have it filtered in the low registers. The child immediately goes to sleep because s/he lacks stimuli. To make him/her more dynamic, to give him/her a desire to live, to get on with life, to communicate, s/he must hear his/her mother’s voice filtered in the high registers.

To ensure that the message is perceived, electronic bascules are used to “open the hearing lid” and to allow the mother’s voice to get through, particularly through bony conduction. From this moment onwards, the mother-child relationship is changed and the desires to live and to listen appear. This is what happens thanks to the sessions under the electronic ear.

A preparation for delivery under the electronic ear stimulates, relaxes and comforts the mothers-to-be by giving them:

  • better sleep
  • confidence before delivery
  • a change of posture
  • a decrease of anxiety during pregnancy
  • no apprehension upon return from hospital

The babies that we have been able to monitor after birth eat well, sleep well, are fully aware of what happens around them and smile when they hear Mozart !

         
         
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