Tale from the Neonatal Unit

In the mid 1980's, a Japanese researcher managed to literally insert a microscopic microphone into the uterus of third trimester pregnant woman. He recorded the sounds of the fetus until it become newly born baby.  The researcher, who I suspect is a former or retired paediatrician or obestatrician, made the recording into cassettes and compact discs and tried playing the recording in the nursery of a busy women hospital initally in Japan.
The orchestral cry of some forty odd newly born babies came to almost sudden stop! The nurses, the sisters, the odd matron and all the doctors did not believe their ears.
The miraculous result was almost identically repeated at other busy women hospitals.  The researcher quickly patented the recording and, as you can appreciate, the news spread and orders for the cassettes and compact discs flooded in.

Interestingly the result obtained in women hospitals in Western European countries, the USA, Canada and Australia was close (within expected statistical devitations) to that obtained in Japan. 
What, if anything, can we conclude from this amazing research?
Regardless of our ethnicity, as neonates we hear the same uteric music.
As newly born in a hospital nursery we react universily to that uteric music and our diverse love for different type of music in later life is purely environmental.

My next blog is Part 3 of the Author Talk