The interior world of the fetus

You worry for him from the same moment in which you decide to be a mom. That's why you would love knowing what feels when it is inside you: if he listens to you when you speak to him or he likes the music that you put, if he feels pain with the diagnostic tests, if it perceives your sadness or happiness, if the light bothers him... Since he neither speaks, it does not even cry, it cannot count what he sees (if it are that sees something) saying what he likes, if it calms him that you caress the intestine...

And the fact is that sorrow of all the advances achieved in medicine, we continue without knowing exactly what the baby feels inside the maternal womb. The skills of prenatal diagnosis (as the ultrasound scan or the monitoring) have allowed to find out part of the life of the fetus, of his health, but small of his feelings or mental states, a real mystery.


As it advances the pregnancy, it is clear that your future baby is increasing his movements, which is translated in a progressive neurological maturation. And it is thought that as it is adding weeks of life, it is maturing his senses, which it gives to understand that it appreciates other sensitive worlds, although these assumptions are only interpretations, since they have not been able demonstrated científicamente.

What yes we know is that the newborn baby comes to the world with five developed senses, so ... these already existed when it was inside mom.