Culture for the pre-natal?

I think that's just another "tale". Yknow, like predicting the gender through how much your hair grows or how you hold a cup... Just old wives tales, heh. I went to metal concerts and listened to a lot of loud music, and my child seems just as intelligent as those who were unborn on classical, heh.

I've heard that it can increase the child's intelligence. I played all kinds of classical music, lullabies, even Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone on CD for my baby. The audio book made him really active! The lullabies seemed to really sooth him and get him to settle down, and the classical did both! Some of the classical made him really move a lot, but some would make him settle down. Whether it increased his intelligence...I don't know. But I felt the same as you: I wanted him to get an early appreciation for different kinds of music. We still listen to classical a lot, usually at night.

The jury isstill out on that one, however, it may well make him calmer. Hearing isthe first sense after touch to develop in thefetus, and the childcan pick up the sounds it hears from outside yourwomb. So, if you fight with your spouse a lot, chances are you will have a fretful baby. If you play soft music and alwaysspeak encouragingly to him, he will be a calmer, more relaxed baby, and a bonus is that the music will be familiar to him and he will calm when he hears it.

When my wife was pregnant with our son we often play classical music to him. My son is growing up to be a lot smarter than I am when I was his age according to his grandmother. And honestly I think my son is a lot smarter. I let him play my mobile phone and he does know how to used it. Except texting ofcourse. And dialing someone else number which I forbid him to do. So it doesn't hurt to try. Give it a shoot.