While You Are Expecting: Creating Your Own Prenatal Classroom

By F. Rene Van de Carr and Marc Lehrer

Book Overview

In this practical, easy-to-follow guide, obstetrician and fertility expert F. Renee Van DeCarr and Dr. Marc Lehrer M.D. show moms and dads-to-be how to:

-Reduce stress and prepare an optimal prenatal environment

-Follow the stages in a baby's physical and mental growth

-Learn interactive exercises to prepare for your infant's birth

"While You are Expecting" offers the simple path expectant parents can take that will result in the birth of a calm, intelligent child who already has bonded with the two people who love him most.

Featured on Oprah, Donahue, in Newsweek, Reader's Digest, and USA Today, "While You are Expecting" is a must-have addition to any nursery bookshelf.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893342513
• ISBN13: 9780893342517
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Humanics Publishing Group
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Book

Thank you for this great book. Super information and easy to read!

Read the book and used the product

I bought the book and the BabyPlus Prenatal Education System recommended by it. I used this for my baby from month 5 of my pregnancy. The system recommends that the product is used twice daily for one hour each session. Because I didn't find any reviews, I decided to be a little conservative and only used it for half an hour once a day. Here are my results:My baby is now almost 3 months old.Babies are born more relaxed with their eyes and hands open, and crying little: This is very true. Many people have commented on how alert my newborn was. He also started following black-and-white objects with his eyes since he was two days old ! He is WAY ahead with his visual milestones.Babies nurse better: this is partly true. My baby latched on right away. Unfortunately, he would fall asleep after 10 minutes, so I ended up having to switch to the bottle.Babies sleep better: once their night-day cycles are resolved, it definitely seems like my baby sleeps well at night. Not sure if this is just his temperament or due to the BabyPlus.Babies and children have longer attention spans and reach developmental milestones more quickly: the attention span is very true for my child. He can focus on books we read to him for 20 or 30 minutes at a time! He will play with his baby gym for an hour before needing attention! Regarding the milestones, he is ahead on some, on time with others, behind on some. Babies have advanced language, musical, and creative abilities: he loves music, but with the other stuff it is too early to tell Babies and children have enhanced curiosity and the ability to gather and process information very quickly: my baby definitely seems very curious about the world around him.Babies and children have a better ability to self-soothe: Probably true. Hard to say.Children demonstrate expanded cognitive abilities - testing has shown higher than average IQs: too early to tell with my baby

Prenatal Stimulation

The whole idea of prenatal stimulation fascinated me. There was some mention of it in another book I was reading and so I bought this book to find out more. I was not disappointed. It is easy to understand the concepts behind the communication you are having with your unborn baby because the book explains why you are doing what you are doing. It also backs up the notion of prenatal stimulation with case studies and results. This is my fourth child, the other three being ages 19, 22 & 23, so this concept is very new to me and it's wonderful and exciting to be able to participate in a process where I can give my unborn child "one up" by the time she is born.

Good work!

Good and sober information about bonding and teaching your child. During our pregnancy we carried out the majority of the suggestions in the book with amazing response. Today, although our daughter at present is only 2 months old, we have a wonderfully alert and happy daugther. She is very intelligent, good at focusing and way ahead of the normal developmental curve for an infant.Also we enjoyed the advice on nutrition and living in general.All in all highly recommendable to any expecting parents.

mandatory reading for all expectant mothers

awesome book about communicating with your prenatal child and begining the process of interaction with the world, months before s/he is born. plenty of simple exercises to give your child months of head start in an increasingly complex and demanding world. highly recomended I am just glad I stumbled on this book at the right time!