Researchers from the Netherlands have discovered evidence that unborn babies have memories from at least 30 weeks gestation – about two months before they are due to be born.
According to an article in The Washington Times, scientists from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Maastricht University Medical Centre and the University Medical Centre St. Radboud, based their findings on a study of 100 healthy pregnant women and their babies, with the help of some gentle but precise sensory stimulation.
"In addition, results indicated that 34-week-old foetuses are able to store information and retrieve it four weeks later," said the research, which was released earlier this month.
"It seems like every day we find out marvelous new things about the development of unborn children. We hope that this latest information helps people realise more clearly that the unborn are members of the human family with amazing capabilities and capacities like these built in from the moment of conception," said Randall K. O'Bannon, director of education and research for the US National Right to Life Educational Trust Fund.
Related research in 2003 by psychologists and obstetricians at Queen's University in Canada found that the unborn babies in the study preferred the voices of their own mothers - both before and after birth.
For those that have had the privilege of carrying an unborn child or spent time with newborns, especially premature babies, the results come as no surprise. Little babies are just as human as the rest of us. In the womb or out, they deserve our protection.
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