- Title: JAPAN: RECORDING OF UNBORN BABY SOOTHES THOUSANDS OF YOUNG CHILDREN.
- Date: 25th April 1975
- Summary: CU Record with picture if baby SV INTERIOR PAN FROM Babies in cots TO Doctor entering ward with cassette recorder, places recorder beside crying baby and switches it on CU PAN FROM Recorder TO Baby yawning and falling asleep SV PAN OVER Babies fast asleep TV PAN INTERIOR Record shop CU Display of baby record and tape CU Couple looking at record (2 shots) CU Record playing Initials CL/1635 CL/1647 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 10th May 1975 13:00
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- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: General,Science
- Reuters ID: LVA78YSKXQC1V2DZDWTJKNWTYO6V
- Story Text: A recording of the sounds an unborn baby hears in the womb is contributing to the peace and quiet of mothers and fathers in ever increasing numbers. It is not only in Japan -- where the record was first made -- that this is happening. There are plans to market the record in other countries as well.
The record is called "Sleep Gently in the Womb". It was made by placing a tiny microphone in the womb of an expectant mother to record the sounds made by the blood flowing through veins and arteries.
The Japanese claim the sounds stop babies crying in 84 per cent of cases up to the age of four weeks.
Some researchers in Britain, where the recording will be put on the market within a few weeks, said that though the sounds babies crying while the record was playing, the crying started again when the recording stopped. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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