[.uk] Baby Plus Prenatal Education System

• Infants who have used BabyPlus are born ore alert and responsive, nurse better, sleep better, and later in life, enjoy improved school readiness.
• Audio lessons allow baby to discriminate the simple rhythmic sounds of BabyPlus from those of the mother and learning begins.
• A progressive developmental tool that gets results
• Tracks usage time starting at 18 - 32 weeks of pregnancy to track your usage goal of playing for one hour twice a day.
• Comfortable for prenatal mother to wear

Amazon.com Product Description:
A Breakthrough in Learning This patented, prenatal curriculum is designed to strengthen your baby's learning capabilities with naturally derived audio lessons. For your child, the developmental benefits of BabyPlus last a lifetime. Parents who hope to give their prenatal child every intellectual, developmental, creative, and emotional enrichment will want to take a closer look at the BabyPlus Prenatal Education System. BabyPlus is a patented, prenatal curriculum developed to strengthen a child's long term learning capabilities. These naturally derived audio lessons are founded on the very language of the prenatal child, the language of the maternal heartbeat. As a baby distinguishes the simple rhythmic sound lessons of BabyPlus from those of the mother, auditory learning begins. As a mom's pregnancy progresses, so does the BabyPlus curriculum. The baby is introduced to a sequential learning process at a time during development when the advantages will be most enduring and significant. The developmental benefits of BabyPlus last a lifetime. What are Professionals Saying? "Baby Plus may have been the simplest, yet most important thing I did for Mary before she was born. From her quiet, calm alertness as a newborn to her, now happy, interactive personality as a toddler, I have been amazed at what a difference Baby Plus has made in the way she learns from everyone and everything around her." Elizabeth Moore, M.D. Pediatrician "As a pediatric physical therapist, the developmental strengths of the BabyPlus children I've seen in my practice are very convincing. These children consistently demonstrate very strong fine and gross motor skills, early milestones, and long attention spans. Now, I too am a BabyPlus mother (of three) and I have seen countless additional benefits in my own children, most notably their strong learning skills and long-term memory, and adaptive dispositions. What a wonderful investment!" Paula Ryan, PT Pediatric Physical Therapist "BabyPlus is a brilliant system. I have used it myself, will definitely use it again, and have only positive things to say about it in my book." Sarah Brewer, M.D. Obstetrician Author of SuperBaby: Boost Your Baby's Potential from Conception to Year One "For their child's lifetime development, every parent should hear about this discovery, an innovation representing the single most significant step science has taken toward increasing infant potential." Rene Van de Carr, M.D. Obstetrician Author of While You Are Expecting "I think that someday, the use of BabyPlus will be absolutely as common during pregnancy as is taking a prenatal vitamin today." Karen Bell, R.N. Registered Nurse, BabyPlus Mother of 3 "I just love your BabyPlus! I would recommend it to anyone! My son was alert and active from the time we began using your product at 18 weeks gestation. Gradually, he began to anticipate his "sessions" and would kick when it began. Since his birth he has been more alert than the average baby. He is now 16 months old and has more than 50 words in vocabulary, listens intently, watches lips and speaks 10-15 words in his father's native Italian! I credit half of this development to Babyplus!! He has benefited greatly from your product!" Kati Corsi Teacher "An expectant mother provides for the physical growth of her developing child through conscientious lifestyle, diet, and the use of prenatal vitamins. BabyPlus offers similar enrichment by strengthening a child's learning capacity at the most critical period of development. I have seen the remarkable benefits myself." Susan Morrow, Ph.D. Molecular Biologist What is Prenatal Learning? Every mother knows that her child's physical development begins during the crucial prenatal months. Taking a prenatal vitamin to enrich a child's nutritional environment is the standard-of-care for providing an optimal environment during a child's earliest physical development. It is widely accepted that a child's learning ability begins during those very same prenatal months. Educators, scientists, criminologists and physicians alike have long ago acknowledged the vital importance of a healthy and enriched prenatal environment as it pertains to the long term development and learning ability of a child. An age-appropriate prenatal curriculum strengthens a child's ability to learn during the developmental period when the advantages will be most significant for the child. In the prenatal months, the brain is at its most receptive stage of learning. The prenatal baby's hearing is fully developed by the 18th week of pregnancy. Independent studies have demonstrated that, for the duration of the pregnancy, the baby can actually compare and contrast simple sounds. By encouraging this simple 'auditory exercise' during this crucial period, these studies have demonstrated that the child may realize significant long-term developmental benefits. Dr. Mark Pitzer, Ph.D. writes, "Research suggests that a child's intellectual development is influenced equally by their inherited genetic blueprint and the early immediate environment." This crucial early environment is not just the "0 to 3" years of age that we hear so much about, but actually the "prenatal to 3" years of age. An expectant mother's uterus is not a 'soundproof booth'. The developing child can certainly hear many of the sounds and noises in his or her mother's external environment. However, these sounds are fairly fleeting. The one true and consistent sound presented to the child naturally during those months is the mother's heartbeat. For the duration of pregnancy, this is the natural language heard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is a natural, simple, and repetitive sound. Therefore, in order to truly communicate with and encourage early comparative learning during the prenatal months, sounds similar to the mother's heartbeat are the most developmentally appropriate. For more information on prenatal education go to BabyPlus. Can Prenatal Learning Aid in Bonding? Bonding is the relationship that forms between a mother and her child that establishes the basis for an ongoing mutual attachment. Bonding implies that there has been interaction between them, each contributing to the relationship at some level. The encouragement and practice of prenatal learning provides the mother with an opportunity each day to focus on her prenatal child. She can offer her prenatal baby auditory stimulation that she knows will help the baby's cognitive development. It is a loving, conscious effort on the part of the mother and it is satisfying to her maternal instinct to be able to do something so very beneficial for her baby. As a mother observes the baby's movements in response to a prenatal curriculum, communication between the mother and baby has begun. The baby reacts with interest and curiosity to these new sounds which have entered its otherwise predictable environment. In brief, their interaction becomes an elementary form of learning, like playing a game (the same delight seen in infants playing peek-a-boo or pat-a-cake). Parents who have engaged in prenatal learning with their babies report various responses. Typically, babies will become active during the sessions, kicking in rhythm with the simple sounds of BabyPlus. Other babies adjust their biologic clocks to begin arm or leg movements at the precise time a session is to start (even if the mother is late) if the mother turns on the BabyPlus unit at the same time each day. Still others who are normally active may cease activity during the sessions, as if they are concentrating on the sounds. Naturally, while such bonding is most significant between the mother and the prenatal baby, others can share in this interpersonal exchange. Not only do they observe maternal happiness as an effect, they can place their hands or face against the mother's abdomen and feel what is going on. In this way the family can experience the beginning of interactive family communication. How a baby responds can actually provide a preview of future personality traits! Does Playing Music Encourage Prenatal Learning? Every prenatal child experiences the sonic environment of his or her mother: outside voices, traffic, television, radio, and CDs. The sounds generated by this outside stimuli pass through the abdominal wall, which lowers the volume by about 35 decibels and muffles the sounds. For the baby, it is much like listening to sounds underwater. Even though the baby is exposed to these sounds, they pass by him as white noise because they are too complex and the baby has no frame of reference for them as sounds. Listening to music is a pleasurable experience, and certain types of classical music can have a calming effect on a pregnant mother. Since the prenatal baby can sense a mother's mood, the mother's emotional state can have a corresponding calming affect on the baby. However, music is not 'basic' enough to be the most effective prenatal curriculum. The most dominant sound heard by the baby is the mother's pulsing heartbeat at 95 decibels. This sounds to the baby as loud as a rock band concert would sound to you. This heartbeat occurs naturally at about 1 beat per second. The baby's heartbeat is approximately 2 beats per second. As the baby develops and hears these two sounds repeatedly, they become imprinted in the baby's cognitive architecture. They become the permanent foundation upon which all learning will be built. The most effective prenatal education curriculum is one that utilizes the main element of the baby's frame of reference, namely, the heartbeat. Research has shown that introducing a heartbeat sound at a lower decibel level (like the simple rhythms of BabyPlus at 65 decibels) encourages the prenatal baby to begin to differentiate between the two sounds. Click here to hear what your baby would hear inside the womb. The next progression is to slowly increase the rate of the sound used in the curriculum. Following this, the curriculum can introduce a slight tonal change. All changes in the prenatal curriculum must be very slight to give the prenatal baby the means of discriminating between these similar sounds. In this pattern of staged progression, the baby begins to learn. Such sounds must be very simple and repetitive, something which neither speech nor music can accomplish as effectively. That is why nursery rhymes, tunes, reading aloud, and classical music are simply too complex during this early stage of development. What are the Benefits of Prenatal Learning? Parents and researchers alike have observed and measured the benefits associated with the BabyPlus Prenatal Education curriculum. Babies that have enjoyed this prenatal curriculum are born more relaxed and alert. Typically, their eyes and hands are open at birth. These infants are more responsive and interactive and are visibly ready to absorb and appreciate their environment. Parents report that these babies nurse more readily and self-soothe more easily. Parents also report that, if their care giving skills are consistent, the regular sleep/wake cycle of their baby becomes quite consistent at an early age in the infant's life. There is also documented scientific evidence that the immune system of an infant who sleeps well and sleeps regularly is actually stronger. Additionally, an obvious side benefit of a well-rested baby is a well-rested parent! Babies that have benefited from prenatal learning are reported to reach early childhood milestones, such as the ability to point to body parts on command, walk and talk, etc. ahead of their peers. Utilizing such milestone assays as the Clinical and Linguistic Auditory Milestone Scale (CLAMS test) and the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (school readiness test), these children have shown an increased attention span and measurably improved school readiness. Parents have also reported that BabyPlus children exhibit greater creativity and independence. All of these traits result as a combination of both genetics and an enriching early environment. Strong thinking children are more successful in school and in life. Prenatal learning does not create a "genius baby" anymore than a prenatal vitamin creates a "bodybuilder." The prenatal months of early development are simply the right time to strengthen the foundation for learning.

Does it work?:
The thing about BabyPlus is I don't think that there is any way to tell if your child was helped by this machine. What I do know is this- my child is a very easy going, and smart child. He spoke early, and clearly. People have stopped me on the street since he was a year old because they could not believe how well he spoke. Now, at age 3, he has proven himself to be a great problem solver. If I ever have another child, I will definitely use BabyPlus again.

I'll forever regret using this item with my son.:
I was suckered in by the convincing advertising. Of course I wanted my child to be at the top of his class.... of course. So I'll list the pro's first: My son is articulate, has a keen mind and has been speaking in full sentences (albeit short at first!) by about 18 months. People comment all the time about his speech (clarity and vocabulary) and also about how sharp he is. Now the cons: My son did not sleep through the night until he was close to one full year old - he was a fussy baby and incredibly sensitive to noise and stimulus. He hit his major milestones on time (or early), but was, and still is, incredibly high-maintenance. My son was just diagnosed (yes, by a team of professionals) ADHD, is hyperactive and displays the impulsive characteristics of ADHD. I'm fully aware that all babies/toddlers/kids are individuals, and that it's not a 'one size fits all' approach to child-rearing, but please, just leave your perfect baby alone and don't be tempted to use this product. We now face years and years of behavioral work, dietary monitoring, and proactive management to deal with his ADHD - it's just not worth it to have a smarter child at the expense of 'normal' childhood.

DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY IN SHAM "SCIENCE":
What an utter waste of money! I plan on returning it ASAP. I even called the customer service number and complained - the "inventor" called me back (which was nice) and left this long, detailed message proclaiming the "benefits" of and "science" behind it. He referred me to his web page, stating that there were scientific, peer reviewed articles there. I am a physician (hence I should have known better than to buy this, shame on me) and there was only one article from an actual medical publication...and it is from some obscure journal and was written by him! There is absolutely NO objective data that this is nothing but a big waste of money. While I was waiting for the package to arrive, I had visions of my daughter being accepted to Yale at age 10, playing Beethoven and Bach at the age of 3, etc :)) But when the package arrived and my husband put batteries in, I thought there was a defect with the product. There was this horrible rattle eminating from it...kind of like a very slow dentist drill. Hence what prompted my call to customer service. No, indeed it was not a defect...it's supposed to make that rattle...and the 16 "lessons" ... just speeding up the horrible drilling sound so you actually feel like you are at the dentist...getting a root canal...without novicaine. So, save your money and buy something actually useful; toilet paper, deoderant...anything would be more useful for your baby than this!

Using it again with Baby #2:
I used this product faithfully since I was 17 weeks pregnant with my son who is now 19 months old. Baby Plus does not guarantee results, however, I have had similar results with my son as other users have. Caden was extreemly alert from day one. He was born with eyes and palms both open and hardly cried. He nursed well from day one and has always been extreemly interactive with others at a very young age. He reached most milestones slightly earlier, but is very smart and speaks very well for a 19 month old boy. He is very creative, has an amazing imagination, keeps himself entertained, is independent, is amazing at anything sports related, yet is also very careful... The only thing that didn't seem to "work" with Baby Plus, was Caden was a horrible sleeper through the first 6 weeks and would still wake up to nurse at least 2-3 times a night until 14 months.... some of that is normal anyways, and some I'm sure I could have stopped before 14 months too. My cousin used this also for her baby who is now 12 months old and has had very similar results. While this may be just coincidence, and I have been blessed with a very special child, I am using Baby Plus with my second pregnancy.

I would use BabyPlus again:
When I was pregnant 2 years ago, you sent me a Baby Plus to use. You asked me to write a review after Ella was born, and the truth is I had not used the Baby Plus, but not as faithfully as the instructions suggest. Additionally I felt that Ella was too young for me to see any verifiable results. She is now almost 20 months old, and talks a lot more than many children her age. Her language skills are exceptional (or so I am told) for a child so young. She also has a decent attention span which seems unusual for a 20-month-old! I am now pregnant with our second child. Though I am not sure there is anyway to prove that Baby Plus is the reason that Ella seems to be progressing so well with her language and development, I will definitely use the Baby Plus with this second pregnancy! Even though I didn't use it as much as I intended to with Ella, I don't want to take the chance of not using it on this next baby.