Mum
I usually play Punjabi music - baby starts rolling, kicking, taking different positions. My bump is going that way.
Dad
You actually see the bump move.
Trish - Health Visitor
At this stage in your pregnancy, the baby can hear your voices.That helps them feel calmer as well because it鈥檚 voices that they're used to.
Cristina - SLT
Your baby really is listening, they're getting ready to be a language learner even before they're born. What your baby's tuning into first is something called prosody. This is the rhythm and pitch patterns of your speech, a bit like the tune of your voice. For example, English has a different tune to Japanese and your baby is already beginning to learn this.
Mum
We speak two languages which is Punjabi and English. I usually say 鈥淚s my baby hungry? Let's go into the kitchen and see what we can make today."
Cristina - SLT
By eighteen weeks your baby's ears are beginning to send signals to the brain about the sounds that they can hear. There's one sound above all else that they're learning about and that's the sound of their mum.
Mum
I usually spend most of the time at home so I just talk with baby bump.
Cristina - SLT
By 23 weeks they can hear the muffled sounds of their mum's voice and by 24 weeks they respond to that voice. Their mum's voice can calm them down and they can become more still as they listen to it.
Dad
Usually, whenever I come home from work before we eat,I usually sit and talk to the baby and just say, rub the baby and just go 'Hi baby, how's your day' things like that, just until the baby gets used to my voice.
Trish - Health Visitor
Yes absolutely.
Cristina - SLT
When it comes to recognising and processing speech it鈥檚 the left temporal lobe of your baby's brain that is the most active part. When your baby hears their favourite people talking brain starts to develop important speech processing skills which set them up to be future word learners.
Dad
Haway pet, how you doing?
From fairly early on in pregnancy your baby starts to hear sounds from inside the womb.
Even before birth they're getting ready to become language learners.
Image caption, Your baby is listening before they're born. The first thing they tune into is something called prosody. This is the rhythm and pitch pattern of your speech.
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