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Mother and Baby Voice-Bonding

Have you ever considered that the 'mother to be' is the primary role model for the child's voice and that she is bonding with her baby whenever she speaks and sings - particularly when she sings?

Seven weeks after conception the mechanisms of the ear, tongue, and throat are forming in the embryo (clinical symposia vol. 28. pub Ciba). The developing foetus is therefore listening to its mother for most of her pregnancy.

The adult voice should sing and speak with equal ease. Both men's and women's voices should have a deep resonance that is both powerful and attractive. Good singing lengthens the vowels and increases both resonance and bone conduction throughout the body, thus making a stronger connection with the foetus.

If your voice is shrill, high, lacking in colour and clarity and particularly if you never sing, you are not making much vocal connection with your baby. After birth the mother is still the primary role model and the bonding needs to continue (VoiceGym Book Chapter 2) You remain so throughout the years before your child goes to school. There is currently much encouragement to play music to your baby, - particularly Mozart - but there is absolutely nothing that is as charismatic and stimulating to a young child's brain as being sung to by a resonant adult voice-the fundamental musical instrument from which all others have developed.