Dr. Konstantina Stankovic
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But then...
when they pull them out, everything is unbearably loud.
So in fact, the first thing in terms of counseling them, we say, well, take out your earplugs.
You have to get used to the normal listening environments.
And we already know that the brain is amazing.
It can get used to different stimuli.
And it's important that it gets natural input so that it can work normally.
Otherwise, indeed, it can
calibrate in ways that are unhealthy.
Yes.
In the second trimester.
Wow.
And the organ of hearing is fully formed in utero, fully formed.
Listening, ready to go.
And again, they hear in the womb.
It's amazing.
As you can imagine, challenging experiments to perform and some are based on electrophysiologic data and others are done based on imaging data.
And there's only so much you can do to pregnant women for safety reasons.
So it's actually hard to precisely answer your question.
But what is clear that the fetus can hear the mother's voice.