Product Description

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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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #206282 in Books
• Published on: 2001-10-01
• Released on: 2001-10-16
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

From Library Journal
Wirth (clinical associate professor of pediatrics, Tufts Univ. Sch. of Medicine) has been working with premature babies for more than 20 years. He was also physician to Elizabeth Carr, the first U.S. test tube baby. His experiences and research have led him to believe that quality medical care does not guarantee a healthy baby; just as vital is the "psychological and spiritual content of your life." Everything women (and their partners) think, feel, and do while pregnant, he argues, has a profound impact on the child before and after birth. Here, he instructs parents-to-be on how to handle stress, avoid low self-esteem, and talk to their unborn child. Wirth contends that a parent's connection with a child is more intimate prior to birth owing to direct chemical communication. He repeatedly notes that an infant has an incredible learning capacity and that what is learned in utero and in the first few months outside the womb will set the stage for the rest of a child's life. This well-written treatise is clinical in detail, and most public library patrons do not need as much as it offers. Nevertheless, the author's passion for his subject is contagious. Recommended for larger public library parenting collections and academic library child development collections. Lisa Powell Williams, Moline P.L., IL
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review
"Please read this book. It just may be the greatest gift you ever give your child." -- Steven W. Vannoy, author of The Ten Greatest Gifts We Give Our Children

"Read this book! ... learn how to improve your birthing experience and the health and happiness of your unborn child." -- --C. Everett Koop, M.D., Former U.S. Surgeon General

About the Author
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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Customer Reviews

WOW an amazing look on the effects you have on your unborn
Dr. Wirth is a physician with a true passion for what he does. As a perinatalogist/neonatologist, he's worked closely with premature babies and thus has been able to study closely why they have been born under early circumstances. His findings are well supported by research both on the field and within his own findings.

He explains clearly, in layman's terms, how the mother and her partner have a HUGE influence on laying the architectural framework of the baby's brain while they are still in-utero, that is, still in the mother's womb. The parent's attitudes, emotions, mental health, and spiritual health greatly impact the laying down of this framework, and ultimately affect your child's temperement, disposition, personality, ability to deal with stress, etc...

This book not only educates you about the developmental processes at work, but does so in a manner that is interesting, and nothing at all like a boring didactic schoolbook. Not only for those who want to prevent a premature birth, but also for those who wish to bring their baby into this world with the advantage of feeling loved, secure, balanced, and ready to learn with an easy disposition that can ultimately have a lifetime effect well into adulthood. Dr. Wirth will show you how to be at peace, be happy, be positive, and be spiritual during this important time.

Not only for expectant mothers, but for their partners, family members, the grandparents, or simply anyone who is fascinated by the human bonds which can be created during conception and during the formative years thereafter.

This book changed my pregnancy/life
Without getting into too many details of my pregnancy and why it was so stressful, I want to share how much this book meant to me. I was suddenly single 4 mos into my pregnancy and cried for the next 2 months solid. I accidently came across this book while I was heading for the self-help section at a bookstore and the title jumped out at me. It caused a complete 180 degree change in my attitude. It helped me to focus on "parenting my unborn daughter". Every emotion I experienced, I shared with my daughter, and I had to control those emotions and provide her with the best environment to grow. It helped me to understand the development, both physical and mental, of my daughter.I read quite a few baby books (What to expect... etc.) while I was pregnant, but this was so different, and I learned more of what was happening inside me and inside of my daughter in this one book. I also learned how to parent the child before she was even born. I learned how to express my love (and the very real affects of my love on my daughter) to someone who couldn't show it back yet. I learned more about myself. I buy this book for every new parent out there. My daughter is now 16 mos old, and I still read it and get something out of it everytime.

This is a life changing Program!!
I was introduced to Dr. Wirth's work at a convention. His whole pregnancy approach to building a better life for the baby through the "Peaceful Womb" and getting Dad and Mom fully involved with making time for the baby before the baby is born, was a new concept to most in the lecture. The idea of "Fetal Love Breaks" every day, the Exercise videos and relaxing CDs that go with the program are great. I really enjoyed attending the Prenatal Parenting Program classes, too. Until you experience Dr. Wirth's peaceful concept of creating greater neurological development in the baby's brain through greater couple communication, it is difficult to understand how very deeply we are involved daily with the cellular creation of this baby. Thank you Dr. Wirth for creating the Prenatal Parenting Program with all the Classes, books, workbooks, tapes and CD's to support our learning about the importance of conscious creation and birth of the peaceful child. I know it has changed my life and the lives of many babies, children and mothers.