Prenatal Right Brain Education - does it work?

Parenting and Education (Other) Prenatal Education
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I’ve seen prenatal programs for pregnant mothers in Heguru and TweedleWink. I was also told that babies whose mothers attended these classes while they were in the womb were born able to talk. I’m not sure exactly what they meant by that. Does anyone know anything about this? Is it true? Do you know anyone who tried these programs while pregnant?

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I’ve never heard of that, and it sounds absurd. I don’t see how studying anything will make your unborn baby smarter. I can see how reading and talking and singing will help your child, but not studying.

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Thanks for your view. I have to admit that it sounded quite unbelievable when I first heard it. Then again, a lot of the things some of the kids can do after right brain education are pretty amazing, too, so I didn’t want to discount it without at least throwing the question out there. I have been trying to verify that information but so far - no luck.

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ShenLi, I think what’s being suggested is the following:

  • During pregnancy, your thoughts, feelings and words affect your growing baby. It is well known that the chemicals which are released when you’re happy or stressed directly affect your baby.
  • When you talk or sing, the baby picks up on what you’re saying. If you read the books on education in utero. they use case studies of children remembering what their mothers sang during pregnancy. I have a personal example of this. While I was pregnanct, I used to sing the numbers song and the alphabet song and a particular Art book. Months after my daughter was born, I started signing the songs to her. She immediately stopped what she was doing and started staring at me with this adoring look. I then took out the book (I was quite shocked) and started reading and she continued to stare at me with an adoring look. She definitely recognised the book and the songs from when she was in utero!

So perhas if you read ALOUD or sing ALOUD - that’s what they are learning, and if you try to remain happy, the chemicals are good for brain development and a happy, well balanced child.

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Thanks for the insight Sarah. I have noticed that my second son responds to our BBC audio recording of Thomas and Friends in the car - my older son liked to listen to it so we played it quite a lot while I was pregnant. I also find that my younger son seems more mellow and easy going compared to my older son and someone asked if I felt more relaxed during my second pregnancy and I have to agree that I was more relaxed with no.2 compared with the first pregnancy.

In fact, I think my younger son responds to sounds a lot more than my older son did when he was this age. I was often alone during my first pregnancy and I’m afraid I didn’t really talk or sing much. By virtue of the fact that I had a toddler during the second pregnancy, there was always a lot of chatter and singing. So a lot of what you’ve said is falling into place. Thank you. :slight_smile: