Reading Aloud to Children Before & After Birth
November 3, 2008 by Mary Emma Allen
Filed under Parenting
Reading to Children
We often hear about reading to children from infancy to encourage their enjoyment of stories. What about reading to children while they’re still in the womb?
Marcie has an interesting guest post at one of her other blogs…A Child Chosen. Her guest tells of being at the birth of the child they adopted and the baby recognizing her voice when she entered the nursery in A Domestic Birth, Overwhelmed With Joy.
Then the adoptive mother recalled:
It was then that I was reminded of his birth mother’s request, during her pregnancy, that we give her a CD recording of us reading children’s stories …read more




