Your friend, Cassie, is eight months pregnant and has heard that she should read to her unborn child. What would you tell her based on research of reading aloud during pregnancy?

a. Don't bother. Your baby's hearing isn't sufficiently developed to hear you anyway.
b. Your baby can hear, but the uterine environment is so noisy that your baby is not going to hear what you read very well.
c. If you read to your baby before she's born, she will be able to hear you, but she won't have any memory of it after she's born.
d. If you read to your baby before she's born, not only will she hear you, but after she is born she might recognize the rhythm of a story you read to her in utero.

d

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