Babies understand even from the womb of the mother.
They listen to sounds and are influenced by it.
This has been noticed in Legends and Ithihasas of India.
In Mahabharata, Abhimanu learns of Chakra Vyuha when he was in the womb of his mother Subhadra and his father , after teaching him as to how to enter the Vyuha, leaves the bedside with out teaching how to get out.
Abhimany gets killed later in a War having entered the Vyuha and unable to come out of it.
Researches had indicated that babies could listen to the sounds.
Now it is understood that they can understand the accents of Mother and can distinguish between accents of languages.
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Baby in Uterus.
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Abstract
Aims
To test the hypothesis that exposure to ambient language in the womb alters phonetic perception shortly after birth. This two-country study aimed to see whether neonates demonstrated prenatal learning by how they responded to vowels in a category from their native language and another non-native language, regardless of how much postnatal experience the infants had.
Method
A counterbalanced experiment was conducted in Sweden (n = 40) and the USA (n = 40) using Swedish and English vowel sounds. The neonates (mean postnatal age = 33 h) controlled audio presentation of either native or non-native vowels by sucking on a pacifier, with the number of times they sucked their pacifier being used to demonstrate what vowel sounds attracted their attention. The vowels were either the English/i/or Swedish/y/in the form of a prototype plus 16 variants of the prototype.
Results
The infants in the native and non-native groups responded differently. As predicted, the infants responded to the unfamiliar non-native language with higher mean sucks. They also sucked more to the non-native prototype. Time since birth (range: 7–75 h) did not affect the outcome.
Conclusion
The ambient language to which foetuses are exposed in the womb starts to affect their perception of their native language at a phonetic level. This can be measured shortly after birth by differences in responding to familiar vs. unfamiliar vowels.
Parents are some thing to be ridiculed and insulted.
A seed also becomes a tree begetting seeds.
The last line of the Mother was poignant.
‘I don’t know. But please tell me I’m not alone. And that it will be okay.’
Rest Assured, You are not Alone.
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I can only quote Shakespeare.
‘How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is To have a thankless child. King Lear (1.4.280)
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A Mother’s Agony Over Her Son.
I’m going to be honest with you guys. I’m really tired of my son.
The level of disrespect and general level of unhappiness is becoming so distressing that I’m barely functioning as his mother. I don’t want to be around him. I don’t want to do anything for him.
I’ve given this so much thought — maybe too much. What am I doing wrong? Why is he so unhappy? Is he depressed? Do we have a real issue here?
I don’t have the answer. He is generally a normal, happy boy. Until it comes to me or his father. The way he treats us is just…horrifying. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is ever right. Ever enough.
Why? How did we create this person who disrespects, demands, and blames us for everything? How did he become so… spoiled?
What do you do when all you want to do is scream, and cry, and hit, and run away?
What do you do when it’s always just boiling. Festering.
When the last thing you want to hear is anyone’s voice. Whether disrespecting, whining, asking, needing.
When you can’t for the LIFE of you imagine what else they could possibly need. What you AREN’T doing?
When the more you give them, the more they want. The more they complain. The more they tell you they hate you. What a terrible mother you are.
Who am I raising? And what am I doing wrong. Isn’t the way he treats me a reflection on my motherhood?
I love him so much. This is not the mother I wanted to be. I wanted to be the mother who has long talks, and listens, and encourages moving away from the norm. Using imagination, experimentation. Trial and error.
But I’m not.
I’m the mother who needs strict adherence to the rules. The routine. Do it now the way I want it done before my head blows off.
I don’t know why. Because I work from here, and I need some level of understanding and order? Because I just need people to not be contradictory even for just a little while?
Two West Seattle brothers accused of literally leaving their father to rot to death now face felony elderly-abuse charges.
King County prosecutors contend Kenneth and Keith Shaw lived rent-free in their parents’ Alki neighborhood home while their 86-year-old father wasted away, neglected. Police contend the pair of 50-somethings refused to move their parents into a nursing home because they wanted to inherit their parents’ ample savings.
Conditions were so bad when paramedics arrived in November 2010 that a trail of blood followed Kyle Shaw Jr. as the first responders carried him from the home, Seattle Police Det. Suzanne Moore told the court.
Some Mysteries of The Human body are quite intriguing.
We do not know much about them.
Yet we feel we have all the answers and subject our body to Medicine/Surgery.
Please read the ones on Appendix and The Brain.
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If you shaved a chimpanzee and took a photo of its body from the neck to the waist, “at first glance you wouldn’t really notice that it isn’t human,” said Kevin Hunt, director of the Human Origins and Primate Evolution Lab at Indiana University. The two species’ musculature is extremely similar, but somehow, pound-for-pound, chimps are between two and three times stronger than humans, Hunt told us. It’s unclear why we’re so much wimpier than our closest hominid relatives; perhaps our muscles’ attachment points subtly differ, or our muscle fibers could be less dense.
Either way, the result is slightly humiliating. Once, in an African forest, Hunt watched an 85-pound female chimp snap branches off an aptly named ironwood tree with her fingertips. It took Hunt two hands and all the strength he could muster to snap an equally thick branch. [Chimps vs. Humans: How Are We Different?
Nine out of 10 people are right-handed. More mysterious than the dearth of southpaws is the fact that humans have dominant hands in the first place. Why just one hand with top-notch motor skills, instead of a double dose of dexterity? One theory holds that handedness results from having more intricate wiring on the side of the brain involved in speech (which also requires fine motor skills). Because the speech center usually sits in the left brain hemisphere — the side wired to the right side of the body — the right hand ends up dominant in most people. However, this theory gets a big blow from the fact that not all right-handed people control speech in the left hemisphere, while half oflefties do. Perplexing.
Like all other female apes, women’s breasts fill with milk when they have newborn babies to feed. But female humans alone have bloated bosoms at all other times, too. Scientists can’t agree on what — or who — our “permanently enlarged breasts” are for. Most evolutionary biologists think breasts serve the purpose of attracting men, who get fooled into thinking a busty woman will make a great baby feeder (even though her breasts actually contain fat, not milk).
Breastfeeding.
Anthropologists, meanwhile, tend to think breasts evolved for women and babies, not men, noting that in many cultures, men don’t find big breasts remotely sexy. Florence Williams, author of “Breasts” (W.W. Norton, 2012), thinks women developed permanently enlarged bosoms to meet the greater energy needs of big-brained human babies. Hormones in breasts promote fat storage, and this stored fat gets released into milk during breast-feeding. In short, “breast fat goes toward forming the baby’s brain,” Williams told Life’s Little Mysteries. But the theory has yet to gain universal acceptance.
Theories abound when it comes to pubes. Some say these coarse, curly tendrils are sexual ornaments — a visual signal of sexual maturity and a reservoir of smelly pheromones. Others think bushes keep our oh-so-precious nether regions cozy. Still others assert that they serve as padding, preventing chafing during sex. Whatever the reason, many modern people want this stuff gone.
A couple of handfuls of your body aren’t actually your body. For every one of your cells, 10 microbes live inside you, and these hangers-on collectively compose a few pounds (1 to 3 percent) of your total weight. Some of this in-house fauna cleans our skin while some helps us digest food, but the bulk of these microbes contribute to our bodily functions in ways unknown. Healthy people even harbor low levels of harmful viruses, which appear to do something besides sicken us.
“We’re just learning that the consequence of antibiotics is that when you get rid of the good bacteria in our guts, we can develop autoimmune diseases [such as allergies]. We’re not as advanced in our understanding of viruses. What do viruses do for us?” Vincent Racaniello, professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, told Life’s Little Mysteries. Clearly, we’ve signed up for a whole bunch of symbiotic relationships, and have no idea what we’re getting out of the deal.
The poor old human appendix gets lumped in with the likes of wisdom teeth, ear-wiggling muscles and our other useless evolutionary holdovers.
The Appendix.
The worm-shaped organ’s inconsequentiality seems proven by the fact that it can be removed with no obvious drawbacks. But biologists have recently begun to question the long-held assumption of appendix pointlessness. Some suggest it may help train the immune system during fetal development. Other research indicates the organ serves as a “safe house” for the bacteria that aid in digestion, holding a secret stash of microbes that repopulate the rest of the digestive tract after gut-evacuating bouts of diarrhea. The word “appendix” means afterthought. But maybe, just maybe, it isn’t one.
How do the 100 trillion neural connections in our brains work together to create the feeling of being alive? Many great thinkers consider consciousness to be the biggest mystery not just of the human body, but the biggest one, period. As the neuroscientist V.S. Ramachandran put it, “[A]ny single brain, including yours, is made up of atoms that were forged in the hearts of countless, far-flung starsbillions of years ago. These particles drifted for eons and light-years until gravity and chance brought them together here, now. These atoms now form a conglomerate — your brain — that can not only ponder the very stars that gave it birth but can also think about its own ability to think and wonder about its own ability to wonder. With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, is the greatest mystery of all.”
One’s belongings like shirts,Chappals,Shoes were every ones.
People used whatever was available.
Cooking was done in the common kitchen and the Firer in the kitchen never got doused till about midnight.
None felt the absence of their parents nor did they feel left out or ignored.
Every one’s needs were met.
Those were the times when emotional cushion was the best.
Some one can be chosen by you to communicate. depending on your need and problems.
Thus an Adolescent can discuss any thing from Drinking to Sex with Uncles and Cousins without fear or reservations.
Now. as the Tamil Humorist Crazy Moan put it. husband and wife living together is joint family!
Views on the infants sleeping with their parents(parents with Infants) are quite hot on the Internet.
The emotional bonding, the physical proximity,and physical touch between the parents and children up to Ten-years has a lot to do with the security feeling of the children in their adolescent and even in adult stages.
The reasons quoted about the inconvenience to parents , to me, looks , childish.
If one wants to have a stable adult, more than any thing, physical proximity is important.
Well there are always exceptions, including the pervert parents who abuse the children.
Keep the children away from them.(this has to be done by the others, like parents of the couple).
(There are some Marwari/Gujarati Families who follow the traditional Joint Family System in India).
Co-Sleeping.
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Based on my own experiences, I’ve created a short list of the top threats that older babies and toddlers pose to their parents in a co-sleeping environment. I’m sure there are millions more, so feel free to add your own dangers in the comment section below. Together, we must create awareness!…
1. The midnight caller. Parents should be warned against bringing any kind of cellular device into bed with them or within a toddler’s reach. Unless, of course, you don’t mind being bludgeoned in the head with your cell phone before dawn.
2. Eye love you, daddy! So much so, that little Johnny is going to take that cute little finger of his and jab it right through your sleepy eyelid! I would imagine this is why God gave us two.
3. The toddler chokehold. They may be little, but they are mighty. Be aware of your little one’s sleeping position at all times. One minute they’re lovingly sleeping in the crook of your arm, and the next, they’re lying sideways across your throat cutting off life sustaining oxygen to your brain.
4. The fish hook. I’m sure that to a toddler, the two black holes in mommy’s nose may seem like a magnificent curiosity, but to a mom, there is nothing curious about being jarred awake by your child trying to dig your brains out through your nostril.
5. The bitch slap. A more common threat to parents worldwide, this danger is more likely to occur during the morning hours. The bitch slap may be a rude awakening to the parent of an impatiently hungry toddler who wants their damn cheerios right now.
encourages breastfeeding by making nighttime breastfeeding more convenient
makes it easier for a nursing mother to get her sleep cycle in sync with her baby’s
helps babies fall asleep more easily, especially during their first few months and when they wake up in the middle of the night
helps babies get more nighttime sleep (because they awaken more frequently with shorter duration of feeds, which can add up to a greater amount of sleep throughout the night)
helps parents who are separated from their babies during the day regain the closeness with their infant that they feel they missed.
Psychologist Thomas Ollendick of Virginia Tech University is currently researching whether co-sleeping is associated with lower rates of nighttime fear.
In the meantime–whether your child sleeps alone or with family members–one thing seems clear. Nighttime fears and separation anxiety should be taken seriously.
Although the kids in the Australian study were selected from the general population (as opposed to a psychiatric practice or sleep clinic), researchers discovered that about 10% of children complaining of nighttime fears fit the criteria for an anxiety disorder.
Other research suggests strong links between anxiety and bad dreams.
A recent study of toddlers and preschoolers reports that 17-month old kids who were rated by their mothers as anxious, difficult, or emotionally disturbed were more likely than other children to have bad dreams at 29 months (Simard et al 2008).
There always has been a debate on whether the seasons affect the Humans .
Behavior of Animals are affected by seasons ,as we all know.
The information that the seasons affect the babies in a noticeable manner is interesting.
Common sense says that this is possible and probable as well.
If seasons could affect the babies ,is it not logical to say that planets affect behavior and the birth of Babies for all planets ,Sun ,Moon and the Stars affect the physical environment and we are placed in this environment?
Hope this information does not lead to more Cesarean operations!
Summer and Winter Born babies.
A 2006 study published inSchizophrenia Research found that winter babies (born in winter and spring) were on average both bigger and brighter than their summer (born in summer and fall) counterparts. The study, led by Harvard University scientists in collaboration with Queensland University researchers from Australia, followed the development of 21,000 children from birth to 7 years of age. Children in the study were given a series of mental and motor tests at birth, at 8 months, at 4 years, and at 7 years of age. By the 7 year mark, winter children emerged, on average, 210 grams heavier, 0.19 cm taller, and higher scoring on intelligence exercises than summer children.
The 2006 study wasn’t the final word on the subject, however. In a separate study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience in 2010, Vanderbilt University researchers found that mice exposed to different amounts of light at birth coped differently with changes later in life. One group of newborn mice experienced summer-like light conditions (16 hours of light and 8 hours of darkness) while the second group experienced winter-like light conditions (8 hours of light and 16 hours of darkness). The mice then maintained either the same or opposite cycles for 28 days. Once mature, both groups were plunged into darkness. The “summer” mice kept to a daily routine even in the dark, while their “winter” counterparts struggled. While it’s unclear how well these results translate to human populations, the “winter” and “summer” mice were found to have distinctly different biological clocks. The Vanderbilt study suggests that seasonal light exposure after birth could be linked to emotional regulation later in life—think humans with seasonal effective disorder, for example.
Still other studies on the topic of birth season and behavior have linked, among other things, more food allergies to fall birthdates, higher rates of anorexia to spring birthdates, and increased chances of schizophrenia to summer birthdates (with possible roots in the biological clock that the Vanderbilt study points to). Optimism, diets, athleticism—all have possible links to birthdate.
What to make of all these findings? Are those with winter birthdays smarter or healthier than those with summer ones—or vice versa? We decided to look at Lumosity’s own database of human cognition for guidance.
After examining results from 12,259 members who played the popular free game Memory Matrix, we found no statistically significant performance differences between members born in the four different seasons. We used only US members’ gameplay data to insure that all birthdates corresponded to the same seasons. Here’s a graphical representation of the data below:
Newborns whose first few months of life coincide with high pollen and mold seasons are at increased risk of developing early symptoms of asthma, suggests a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
Researchers found that children born in the high mold season, which generally encompasses the fall and winter months, have three times the odds of developing wheezing – often an early sign of asthma – by age 2 compared with those born at other times of the year.
The study results, reported online Tuesday, Feb. 24 (12:01 a.m. GMT) in the journal Thorax, may help shed light on why babies born in the fall and winter appear to have a higher risk of eventually developing asthma than children born in the summer.
Numerous factors have been linked to asthma risk, including heredity and exposure to air pollution, animal dander and tobacco smoke. A 2008 study of birth and medical records found that babies born in the fall are at greater risk of later developing childhood asthma. That study suggested an influence from early exposure to respiratory viruses, which is more common during the peak of cold and flu season.
“In our study, we took a different tack to understand the link between month of birth and asthma by considering ambient concentrations of fungal spores and pollen, which follow distinct seasonal patterns,” said Kim Harley, associate director of health effects research at UC Berkeley’s Center for Children’s Environmental Health Research and lead author of the new study. “Until our paper, there were very little data about exposure to allergens in the air, which we know can trigger symptoms for those who already have asthma. This is the first study to look at the potential role of early life exposure to multiple outdoor fungal and pollen groups in the development of asthma.”
The researchers examined 514 children born in 1999 and 2000 in California’s Salinas Valley, a region with mild, rainy winters and dry summers. They identified 27 spore and 48 pollen groups in the study, recording the average daily concentrations for the groups that accounted for more than 3 percent of the total during the first three months of life for each child in the study.
The season in which you are born may affect everything from your eyesight to your eating habits and overall health later in life, according to a blossoming field of research. The latest study shows that spring babies are more likely to suffer from anorexia nervosa as adults.
“We found an excess of anorexia births in the spring months compared to the general population,” said study researcher Lahiru Handunnetthi, of the Wellcome Trust Center for Human Genetics. “The idea is that there is some sort of risk factor that varies seasonally with anorexia.”
The researchers found that eight out of every 100 people born between March and June had anorexia compared with 7 percent of those without anorexia. This is a 15 percent increase in risk for those born during these spring months.
Previous studies have found similar links between spring births and various disorders, including schizophrenia, multiple sclerosis and even Type 1 diabetes. It’s possible thesediseases are linked to some environmental influence during gestation or the first few months of life, though researchers aren’t sure what that could be.
The leading candidates including vitamin D levels, infections that come and go seasonally, changes in nutrition, and even possibly weather fluctuations, Handunnetthi told LiveScience.
These changing environmental factors seem to influence a wide array of conditions:
A study from 2003 published in the Journal of Nutrition showed that African-American babies born in the summer and fall were smaller than those born at other times. Also, babies of African-American and Puerto Rican decent gained less weight in their first four months if they were born in the fall.
Babies born in the fall have a 9.5 percent risk of having food allergies, up from 5 percent for babies born in June and July. Those babies born in November or December were also three times more likely to suffer from eczema and wheezing. That study was published in 2010 in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Moderate and severe nearsightedness, or the inability to see well at long distances, is highest for babies born in the summer months, suggests research published in April 2008 in the journal Ophthalmology.
Birth month might even affect your biological clock, a mouse study published in 2010 in the journal Nature Neuroscience showed. Mice born in the winter were less able to adapt to a summer light cycle, which could be related to the increased risk of mental health disorders in humans born in the winter, the researchers speculated.
Leukemia has also been linked to being born in the spring, with a peak in April.
Common causes?
Birth month has even been linked to longevity, which could be because of these other adverse health effects. Studies in Austria and Denmark have found that those born in the fall live longer than people born in the spring.
“When we look at diseases we need to identify the risk factor that led to them,” Handunnetthi said. “In general, risk factors could be environmental or genetic. Genetic risk factors you are born with and can’t really change. If you identify environmental factors you can mediate them to carry out prevention studies.”
These environmental causes are still unclear, though some of these birth-month effects may be related. “Perhaps a risk factor is playing a part that is common to all these conditions but we don’t know that yet,” Handunnetthi said.
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