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Remarkably, Washington can do all this although a doctor told him in spring training that he has an irregular heartbeat. Washington suffers occasional fainting spells; last week he passed out twice at home and then underwent some medical tests, the results of which were still unknown...
...uterine environment. He also attached a tiny motor that provides motion similar to what the fetus experienced when the mother's heart beat and as she walked about. The preemie's sense of security is further heightened by the recorded sound of a pregnant mother's heartbeat piped into the artificial womb. Gluck hopes that his invention, which has been tested on only half a dozen babies so far, will help lower the high mortality rate of premature infants...
Normal newborn infants need reassurance too. Reasoning that newborn babies cry, at least in part, because they miss the sound of their mother's heartbeat, Dr. Hajime Murooka of Tokyo's Nippon Medical College inserted a minuscule microphone into the wombs of three expectant mothers and taped their heartbeats. When the taped heartbeat was played back to 300 crying babies (20 of them preemies), 85% either went to sleep at once or stopped crying in a minute. The word spread quickly throughout Japan, and heartbeat cassettes and records are selling at a brisk rate. But Murooka warns that...
...Heartbeat...
...said that he observed no heartbeat...