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Expectant parents form bonds through ‘belly talk’

Thursday, September 9th, 2004

Everyone knows how parents talk to their babies, using the childlike syllables and sentences we call “baby talk.”
But one researcher is studying how parents talk to the baby before it is born. Sallie Han, a pre-doctoral fellow at the University of Michigan’s Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, has a name for the attempts [...]

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