Music evokes a part of our brain that drives our day-to-day human lives, and stands as an important component of weddings, funerals, birthdays, and even pregnancies. German scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences set out to discover a pregnant woman’s connection to music, their results published in Psychophysiology.

Researchers have found that during pregnancy, women have a much more visceral response to music than everyone else does. Music that sounds pleasant to the average person has an enhanced pleasant sound to a pregnant woman, the Medical Daily reported.

"The body's response is just as dynamic as the music itself," said Tom Fritz, a lead researcher of the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig, in a press release.

Ten- to 30-second musical sequences were played for pregnant and non-pregnant female volunteers. The passages were changed to represent pleasant and unpleasant sounding compilations and women were asked to rate the music according to their enjoyment. The pregnant women not only felt more strongly about each type of music, but their heart rates also raised and fell more according to the type of music played.

"Every acoustic manipulation of music affects blood pressure in pregnant women far more intensely than in non-pregnant women," Fritz said.