The Science of BabyPlus®  - Super Baby

"During fetal development, your baby's brain produces at least twice as many brain cells as he needs. The excess cells are only loosely wired in. If they do not make a certain minimum number of connections with other brain cells, they will eventually wither and die just before your baby is born. At least 40 percent - and sometimes as many as 75 percent - of brain neurons are lost during prenatal development, most during the eighth month of pregnancy. You can help to minimize this loss by . . . " Dr. Sarah Brewer,  Super Baby: boost your baby's potential from conception to year 1.

Super Baby: boost your baby's potential from conception to year 1.
by Dr. Sarah Brewer MD, published by Thorsons/HarperCollins, 1998.

Other books by Dr. Brewer:
Menopause
High Blood Pressure
Candida

More excerpts from, Super Baby: boost your baby's potential from conception to year 1.

 "A prenatal stimulation program has many advocates - and a decreasing number of detractors. It is important to state straight away that the aim of prenatal enrichment is not to breed a race of super-beings. The aim is to allow your baby to achieve his full genetic and intellectual potential by giving him the best possible start in live, the best possible environment for his brain to develop, and to increase his chance of acquiring several desirable character traits." 

"While BabyPlus sounds monotonous to the adult ear, its rhythm and subtle sequential changes are beneficial for your baby's developing brain. It starts pulsing at around 1 cycle per second (1 hertz), similar to the rhythm of newborn babies' brain wave pattern (slow-wave 1-2 hertz) and to the rhythm of your own heartbeat. By the time the sounds reach him, they sound very similar to your own blood as it surges past the womb in your arteries. As the BabyPlus stimulus speeds up week by week, your baby compares and contrasts it with the constant background noises in his surroundings (your breathing, heartbeat, placental blood flow, venous blood flow, etc.) and recognizes that the rhythm has changed. As the sounds speed up, his brain has to process the sounds he hears more quickly in order to compare them with your own heart rate. This stimulates neural pathways and means he starts building up a memory bank for different rhythms. This is why repetitive, rhythmic sounds seem to be best at stimulation your baby's developing brain."

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