A Mother’s Rhythmic Translation

Kathryn: …I agree that typing is learned through experience, most of us took some sort of typing/computer class in school.

I’m not convinced that we learn that our hearts need to beat though. Perhaps breathing… because we don’t begin to breathe until after we are born. But isn’t the heart the first thing to develop? And if it is, and the heart develops before the brain, then how can we register the knowledge from our experience that the heart needs to beat? We have this experience before the brain even exists to KNOW such a fact.

Garr: But our mothers teach us how our hearts beat…via the umbilical cord.

Kathryn: That’s not what I meant. I meant more along the lines of how can we LEARN if we do not yet have a BRAIN in which to analyze our experiences and learn the lesson.

Or are you saying that we magically learn from an experience which is not our own?

Garr: I’m saying that the heart starts beating because the umbilical cord sends blood to the fetus. Just like CPR pumps blood through the heart like a jump-start, the mother sends pulses to the fetus via the umbilical cord to essentially bring life into it. This is a learning experience whether or not you like to think of it as one. To make reference to your point about not learning without a brain: why would one need a brain while inside the mother?…The mother is the brains of the operation while she carries the child; once outside of the womb, the baby must fend for itself. The miracle of life is all too beautiful!

Kathryn: I still don’t agree with you, but for the purpose of this discussion, I’ll let it go.

Chris: After following this discussion I don’t agree with you either. I have heard the other side of the argument and believe that it is correct, but it raises other issues that we would rather not discuss here, ethical dilemmas.

Garr: Neither of you believe in an umbilical cord?

Medical journals will tell you that the cord develops in the embryonic stage of life, before the fetus. Medical journals will also tell you that the umbilical cord has one vein and two arteries; the vein carries oxygenated blood from the mother to the child, and the two arteries carry deoxygenated blood from the fetus back to the mother. Thus, the point regarding the brain’s construction coming after the construction of the heart is a nil point because it is the mother who regulates her child’s blood all along.