Stress-related changes in a pregnant woman's heart rate and blood pressure, along with chronic anxiety, can affect the heart rate of her developing fetus, a new study concludes. Although the study did ...

A study in Mexico found that classical music influences fetal heart rate, potentially benefiting development. Researchers observed more stable and predictable heart rate patterns in unborn babies ...

Playing music to unborn babies is a practice that spans cultures and generations. New research suggests that classical music ...

A new study finds that classical music exposure in the third trimester reduces the complexity of fetal heart rate variability, leading to more regular and stable cardiac patterns, potentially linked ...

While fetal heart rate monitoring is time-honored and widely practiced, its intuitively apparent benefits have not been realized in clinical trials (1–3). One possible explanation is the qualitative ...