Prenatal Parenting

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HarperCollins, Oct 16, 2001 - Health & Fitness - 254 pages

Did you know that...

Every year an increasing number of babies are born prematurely or with behavioral disorders?

  • Learn how thinking positively and communicating with your partner and/or medical staff can help prevent a preterm birth and aid in the positive development of your unborn child's personality.

A baby's in utero experience builds the brain architecture that will determine behavior throughout life?

  • Discover exercises that will help you control stress, fear, guilt, and anger and change unwanted behaviors during pregnancy.

Your unborn child has more nerve cells and many more connections among them than an adult?

  • Learn how a fetal love break can help calm your baby and lead to proper nerve and brain development.

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Contents

On Becoming a Brain Architect
3
Fetal Development of Senses
24
The Intrauterine Temple of Learning
33
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About the author (2001)

Frederick Wirth, M.D., staff neonatologist at the Reading Hospital and Medical Center in Reading, Pennsylvania, is an expert on pediatric medicine, in general, and, more specifically, the needs of preterm infants. Dr. Wirth was the physician to Elizabeth Carr, America's first test tube baby, and has served on several presidential and gubernatorial task forces on infant mortality. Dr. Wirth is a clinical associate professor of Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine. He and his wife, Linda, live in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania and conduct pregnancy and parenting seminars together.

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