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I am pretty sure most people don't remember whether someone said something during their birth. Generally, people remember very little from their first years. Fo

I am pretty sure most people don't remember whether someone said something during their birth. Generally, people remember very little from their first years. For a child below 5 years, if you talk about something that happened a year ago, from their perspective it never happened (unless you remind them of the thing repeatedly, in which case they actually remember your repetition, not the original event). Also, the babies themselves contribute some of the noise. The "something is to it" part is probably that you shouldn't play loud metal music in the hospital. Which probably no one does anyway. But being afraid to say a word... that's just superstition.

jariel 6y ago
"whether someone said something during their birth. Generally, people remember very little from their first years" You're missing the context here. Babies don't understand speech, so it's not like words are going to matter. And this has nothing to do with 'memories'. Loud noises, unnatural humming sounds like vehicles, the constancy of it all - is highly unnatural. The possibility that hormones can alter our development is implied in the article, it's not entirely unreasonable that other stressors can affect us as well. We were 'designed' to come into a very quiet world (granted, it was a rugged place) but it was audibly very quiet. Since all of us - adults, children, react in a variety of ways to sound (stressing, soothing etc.) I suggest that audio, in the very earliest phases of one's life can possibly be a stressor.