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on the way Move

Giving your baby Aside from playing music
a head start before to your unborn child, make
he is born sure that you are moving.
Do not sit for a long
Your little one is getting really big now and in just a few period of time because it
months you’ll be a mother. If you’ve already decorated robs your unborn baby of
the nursery, bought all the things you need to buy, sensory stimuli says Marc
resigned from work or taken maternity leave, now is the time you Lehrer, author of ‘Prenatal
can sit back and put your feet up and have everyone else run Classroom: A Parents’ Guide
around after you. for Teaching Your Baby
in the Womb. Aside from
But before you get too comfortable, there are several other pre-natal yoga and pilates
things you can do for your baby right now that may help her classes a gentle walk on the
make more sense of the world around her when she is born. beach is good enough and
According to Kim O’Neill, author of “Bond with Your Baby will get your blood pumping
Before Birth: How to Communicate with Your Unborn Child, it is in no time.
important to engage your soon-to-be-born little one in a variety
of exercises. “By working with your unborn baby to teach him or Manage your stress
her things you can foster a strong bond between you and your
baby that will last a lifetime,” says O’Neill. Finally, make sure you are
relaxed and find ways to
Music unborn child and the Mozart manage and reduce your
Effect: Music for Babies, Vol.2: stress level. According to
Music is a great place to Night Night. Regardless of Ask Dr Sears, a website from
start. A baby’s ears are fully the music you play for your well-known family doctors
formed around the twentieth unborn baby, doctors do Dr William Sears and Dr
week of development, and advise avoiding loud music that Martha Sears, your feelings
your baby’s brain will begin might startle the baby as well can result in a hormonal shift
to show electrical responses as avoiding listening to music that could affect your baby.
to sounds heard outside the for too long as this may over Chronic stress can negatively
womb before 24 weeks of stimulate the baby. impact your growing baby’s
development,” says Dr Sarah brain development and
Brewer, MD in her book Super We Love intelligence and cause him
Baby: Boost Your Baby’s or her to be chronically
Potential from Conception to The Bellysonic Pregnancy stressed before he or she
Year 1. Research shows that Music Belt. This organic is even born. So sit back,
musically stimulated babies relax, put your feet up, listen
seem to develop more quickly, Sherpa TM cotton belt pouch, to some music and then get
can talk up to six months earlier, places soft and gentle-output moving – you’re baby will
and have improved intellectual thank you for it later.
development. This development stereo mini speakers in the
refers to the increase of spatial direction of the womb and is
understanding needed to the perfect way for an expectant
complete such tasks as jigsaw mum to participate in her baby’s
puzzles. Spatial intelligence is sensory development. Available
also imperative in activities such
as higher brain functions of on Amazon.com
mathematics, music, and chess.
mother, baby & child April 2011 There are some great CDs
on the market that include
Ultrasound – music for the

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