How the Prenatal and Early Infancy Environment Influence ...

Prenatal Influences as Information for the Fetus > Additional Support/Evidence > The Importance of Smell and Taste in Infant Development
Tastes and smells transferred to the fetus through the mother's diet are messages about the environment to which it will be born. The infant's tastes can be influenced, therefore, by what the mother eats and transfers through amniotic fluid and breast milk.

 The Importance of Motherese

The Importance of "Motherese" > Additional Support/Evidence > How Motherese Teaches Babies Language
The slow, repetitive, simplistic intonations of motherese crosses cultures and genders and helps babies to learn the sounds of their culture's language so they may pluck the individual words out of the unbroken strings of sounds that comprise sentences.