Womb tunes

We've been reading a bit about pre-natal education, which is the idea that sounds can stimulate the brain of Lil' Genghis and give him a better, faster start on life. This is stuff like BabyPlus, which supposedly gets the baby's brain to make more connections by making more sounds similar to the mother's heartbeat. Like many of these devices, the scientific studies backing it have very small samples. Not everybody's exactly a fan:

I argue that in the aforementioned advice books and devices, the study of fetal development is mobilized so as to generate both a problem (the under-stimulated fetus) and an opportunity (pre-natal enrichment/education), where neither existed before. The maternal body is transformed into a "classroom" without a teacher. Source: 101k PDF

However, it's really easy to make a baby stimulator with some old headphones and a Walkman.

All this is a long way of coming around to one idea: What kind of music or speech should Lil' Genghis be exposed to? There's the classical music favored by Grandpa John, who used to test speakers with Tchaikovsky's "Russian Dance." Both sides of the family favor the music of Stevie Ray Vaughn.

There are worries, too, particularly with the lack of strong science. What if early exposure to The Allman Brothers could lead to a predisposition toward drug abuse?

Let us know! =)