Tuesday, June 19, 2012

RJA 4d: Data

Chart of Critical Periods of Human Development

After searching for hours for a chart depicting fetal development I finally found one worth looking into.    This chart shows the vital parts of pregnancy that affect the fetus.  The part I was interested in was the auditory development though.

In my earlier posts I talk about how music played too loudly could hurt the forming ears of the child,  this confirms that this is possible.  From week 4 to week 9 is when there is the highest possibility of malformed ears and deafness.  Another article I found earlier in the week said that forming fetuses can distinguish sounds as early as 8 weeks.  My interpretation of this is that music can help or hinder at this early stage of pregnancy.

I attempted to use several resources to find charts and statistics but most of my keywords did not work.  I tried pregnancy+"fetal development"+charts, pregnancy+emotion+chart, cognitive development AND pregnancy,  pregnancy+charts, and finally pregnancy+development+charts worked.  I'm glad I know this now because at first it seemed impossible to find anything on the subject.

I searched for quite a while on June 17th and all of my keywords brought up dozens of hits but only 1 in 10 were slightly helpful.

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