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Baby Plus Prenatal Education System | 
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Brand: Dorel Juvenile Group
Category: Baby Product
List Price: $189.99
Buy New: $148.00
You Save: $41.99 (22%)
New (3) from $148.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 477
Batteries: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8.1 x 2.4
Model: 08200
UPC: 052181082009
EAN: 0052181082009
ASIN: B0009EFYJE
Release Date: June 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Infants who have used BabyPlus are born ore alert and responsive, nurse better, sleep better, and later in life, enjoy improved school readiness. | | • | Audio lessons allow baby to discriminate the simple rhythmic sounds of BabyPlus from those of the mother and learning begins. | | • | A progressive developmental tool that gets results | | • | Tracks usage time starting at 18 - 32 weeks of pregnancy to track your usage goal of playing for one hour twice a day. | | • | Comfortable for prenatal mother to wear |
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Amazon.com Product Description
A Breakthrough in Learning
This patented, prenatal curriculum is designed to strengthen your baby's learning capabilities with naturally derived audio lessons. For your child, the developmental benefits of BabyPlus last a lifetime. |  | | | | Parents who hope to give their prenatal child every intellectual, developmental, creative, and emotional enrichment will want to take a closer look at the BabyPlus Prenatal Education System. BabyPlus is a patented, prenatal curriculum developed to strengthen a child's long term learning capabilities. These naturally derived audio lessons are founded on the very language of the prenatal child, the language of the maternal heartbeat. As a baby distinguishes the simple rhythmic sound lessons of BabyPlus from those of the mother, auditory learning begins. As a mom's pregnancy progresses, so does the BabyPlus curriculum. The baby is introduced to a sequential learning process at a time during development when the advantages will be most enduring and significant. The developmental benefits of BabyPlus last a lifetime. |  |  |  | |
What are Professionals Saying?
| "Baby Plus may have been the simplest, yet most important thing I did for Mary before she was born. From her quiet, calm alertness as a newborn to her, now happy, interactive personality as a toddler, I have been amazed at what a difference Baby Plus has made in the way she learns from everyone and everything around her."
Elizabeth Moore, M.D.
Pediatrician
| "As a pediatric physical therapist, the developmental strengths of the BabyPlus children I've seen in my practice are very convincing. These children consistently demonstrate very strong fine and gross motor skills, early milestones, and long attention spans. Now, I too am a BabyPlus mother (of three) and I have seen countless additional benefits in my own children, most notably their strong learning skills and long-term memory, and adaptive dispositions. What a wonderful investment!"
Paula Ryan, PT
Pediatric Physical Therapist
| "BabyPlus is a brilliant system. I have used it myself, will definitely use it again, and have only positive things to say about it in my book."
Sarah Brewer, M.D.
Obstetrician
Author of SuperBaby: Boost Your Baby's Potential from Conception to Year One
| "For their child's lifetime development, every parent should hear about this discovery, an innovation representing the single most significant step science has taken toward increasing infant potential."
Rene Van de Carr, M.D.
Obstetrician
Author of While You Are Expecting
| "I think that someday, the use of BabyPlus will be absolutely as common during pregnancy as is taking a prenatal vitamin today."
Karen Bell, R.N.
Registered Nurse, BabyPlus Mother of 3
| "I just love your BabyPlus! I would recommend it to anyone! My son was alert and active from the time we began using your product at 18 weeks gestation. Gradually, he began to anticipate his "sessions" and would kick when it began. Since his birth he has been more alert than the average baby. He is now 16 months old and has more than 50 words in vocabulary, listens intently, watches lips and speaks 10-15 words in his father's native Italian! I credit half of this development to Babyplus!! He has benefited greatly from your product!"
Kati Corsi
Teacher
| "An expectant mother provides for the physical growth of her developing child through conscientious lifestyle, diet, and the use of prenatal vitamins. BabyPlus offers similar enrichment by strengthening a child's learning capacity at the most critical period of development. I have seen the remarkable benefits myself."
Susan Morrow, Ph.D.
Molecular Biologist
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What is Prenatal Learning?
| | Every mother knows that her child's physical development begins during the crucial prenatal months. Taking a prenatal vitamin to enrich a child's nutritional environment is the standard-of-care for providing an optimal environment during a child's earliest physical development. It is widely accepted that a child's learning ability begins during those very same prenatal months. Educators, scientists, criminologists and physicians alike have long ago acknowledged the vital importance of a healthy and enriched prenatal environment as it pertains to the long term development and learning ability of a child. An age-appropriate prenatal curriculum strengthens a child's ability to learn during the developmental period when the advantages will be most significant for the child. In the prenatal months, the brain is at its most receptive stage of learning. The prenatal baby's hearing is fully developed by the 18th week of pregnancy. Independent studies have demonstrated that, for the duration of the pregnancy, the baby can actually compare and contrast simple sounds. By encouraging this simple 'auditory exercise' during this crucial period, these studies have demonstrated that the child may realize significant long-term developmental benefits. Dr. Mark Pitzer, Ph.D. writes, "Research suggests that a child's intellectual development is influenced equally by their inherited genetic blueprint and the early immediate environment." This crucial early environment is not just the "0 to 3" years of age that we hear so much about, but actually the "prenatal to 3" years of age. An expectant mother's uterus is not a 'soundproof booth'. The developing child can certainly hear many of the sounds and noises in his or her mother's external environment. However, these sounds are fairly fleeting. The one true and consistent sound presented to the child naturally during those months is the mother's heartbeat. For the duration of pregnancy, this is the natural language heard 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is a natural, simple, and repetitive sound. Therefore, in order to truly communicate with and encourage early comparative learning during the prenatal months, sounds similar to the mother's heartbeat are the most developmentally appropriate. For more information on prenatal education go to BabyPlus.
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Can Prenatal Learning Aid in Bonding?
| | Bonding is the relationship that forms between a mother and her child that establishes the basis for an ongoing mutual attachment. Bonding implies that there has been interaction between them, each contributing to the relationship at some level. The encouragement and practice of prenatal learning provides the mother with an opportunity each day to focus on her prenatal child. She can offer her prenatal baby auditory stimulation that she knows will help the baby's cognitive development. It is a loving, conscious effort on the part of the mother and it is satisfying to her maternal instinct to be able to do something so very beneficial for her baby. As a mother observes the baby's movements in response to a prenatal curriculum, communication between the mother and baby has begun. The baby reacts with interest and curiosity to these new sounds which have entered its otherwise predictable environment. In brief, their interaction becomes an elementary form of learning, like playing a game (the same delight seen in infants playing peek-a-boo or pat-a-cake). Parents who have engaged in prenatal learning with their babies report various responses. Typically, babies will become active during the sessions, kicking in rhythm with the simple sounds of BabyPlus. Other babies adjust their biologic clocks to begin arm or leg movements at the precise time a session is to start (even if the mother is late) if the mother turns on the BabyPlus unit at the same time each day. Still others who are normally active may cease activity during the sessions, as if they are concentrating on the sounds. Naturally, while such bonding is most significant between the mother and the prenatal baby, others can share in this interpersonal exchange. Not only do they observe maternal happiness as an effect, they can place their hands or face against the mother's abdomen and feel what is going on. In this way the family can experience the beginning of interactive family communication. How a baby responds can actually provide a preview of future personality traits!
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Does Playing Music Encourage Prenatal Learning?
| | Every prenatal child experiences the sonic environment of his or her mother: outside voices, traffic, television, radio, and CDs. The sounds generated by this outside stimuli pass through the abdominal wall, which lowers the volume by about 35 decibels and muffles the sounds. For the baby, it is much like listening to sounds underwater. Even though the baby is exposed to these sounds, they pass by him as white noise because they are too complex and the baby has no frame of reference for them as sounds. Listening to music is a pleasurable experience, and certain types of classical music can have a calming effect on a pregnant mother. Since the prenatal baby can sense a mother's mood, the mother's emotional state can have a corresponding calming affect on the baby. However, music is not 'basic' enough to be the most effective prenatal curriculum. The most dominant sound heard by the baby is the mother's pulsing heartbeat at 95 decibels. This sounds to the baby as loud as a rock band concert would sound to you. This heartbeat occurs naturally at about 1 beat per second. The baby's heartbeat is approximately 2 beats per second. As the baby develops and hears these two sounds repeatedly, they become imprinted in the baby's cognitive architecture. They become the permanent foundation upon which all learning will be built. The most effective prenatal education curriculum is one that utilizes the main element of the baby's frame of reference, namely, the heartbeat. Research has shown that introducing a heartbeat sound at a lower decibel level (like the simple rhythms of BabyPlus at 65 decibels) encourages the prenatal baby to begin to differentiate between the two sounds. Click here to hear what your baby would hear inside the womb. The next progression is to slowly increase the rate of the sound used in the curriculum. Following this, the curriculum can introduce a slight tonal change. All changes in the prenatal curriculum must be very slight to give the prenatal baby the means of discriminating between these similar sounds. In this pattern of staged progression, the baby begins to learn. Such sounds must be very simple and repetitive, something which neither speech nor music can accomplish as effectively. That is why nursery rhymes, tunes, reading aloud, and classical music are simply too complex during this early stage of development.
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What are the Benefits of Prenatal Learning?
| | Parents and researchers alike have observed and measured the benefits associated with the BabyPlus Prenatal Education curriculum. Babies that have enjoyed this prenatal curriculum are born more relaxed and alert. Typically, their eyes and hands are open at birth. These infants are more responsive and interactive and are visibly ready to absorb and appreciate their environment. Parents report that these babies nurse more readily and self-soothe more easily. Parents also report that, if their care giving skills are consistent, the regular sleep/wake cycle of their baby becomes quite consistent at an early age in the infant's life. There is also documented scientific evidence that the immune system of an infant who sleeps well and sleeps regularly is actually stronger. Additionally, an obvious side benefit of a well-rested baby is a well-rested parent! Babies that have benefited from prenatal learning are reported to reach early childhood milestones, such as the ability to point to body parts on command, walk and talk, etc. ahead of their peers. Utilizing such milestone assays as the Clinical and Linguistic Auditory Milestone Scale (CLAMS test) and the Vineland Social Maturity Scale (school readiness test), these children have shown an increased attention span and measurably improved school readiness. Parents have also reported that BabyPlus children exhibit greater creativity and independence. All of these traits result as a combination of both genetics and an enriching early environment. Strong thinking children are more successful in school and in life. Prenatal learning does not create a "genius baby" anymore than a prenatal vitamin creates a "bodybuilder." The prenatal months of early development are simply the right time to strengthen the foundation for learning.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 72 more reviews...
Unknown Outcome August 9, 2008
I purchased this product based on what other people have said about the outcome of the results. I find the instrument to be too loud and I wonder if it is scaring the baby more than it is suppose to help the baby develop. Since I am 8 mos pregnant and have been using this product for 6 weeks so far, making sure I make the time 2x a day at the same time can be challenging at times. In the beginning the baby moves a little but I find that it puts her to sleep, which might not be a bad thing because I can use it when she is born to help her relax to sleep. It makes me want to sleep too. Since it is too premature to say if it does everything it claims to, I can't give it 5 stars.
 Nature vs. Nurture August 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I borrowed this product from a friend of mine for my second pregnancy. My second baby was about on par with my first baby as far as early verbal skills, which is currently the ONLY proven sign of possible giftedness. I think that this product has a lot to do with the parents that are able to buy/gain access to it. Parents who have the money/are willing to spend the money on this sort of system are often the same parents who spend a great deal of time with their children. This is probably the main factor in determining early and later skills. Of course, I am not discouraging its use as it certainly can't hurt, but I think we need to give ourselves a bit more credit for being the fabulous mommies that we are!
 BabyPlus WORKS! July 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I heard about BabyPlus in a FitPregnancy Magazine when I was about 6-8 weeks along with our first child and decided to give it a try. My mother bought it for me (and the baby!) as my birthday gift and I began using it at 18 weeks. I must say that I am so very pleased with the product! Our beautiful baby boy is now 10 weeks old and a day never goes by that someone doesn't comment on how alert he is for his age. At 3 MINUTES old the doctor handed him to me; when my husband spoke, he turned his head completely around to look for his daddy!! He watches BabyFirst TV for 45-60 minutes if I let him, and will squeal and kick as the colors and pictures change! He has never been a crier either! He only cries when hungry or needs his diaper changed! I have been told by many people that he is the most content infant that they have ever been around. As an occupational therapist I have been very watchful of his milestones and have been pleased to find that he has reached ALL of them ahead of schedule. It seems that he started learning early and has thrived since being born. I truly feel that BabyPlus played a huge role in his calm demeanor, alertness, and quick learning. In utero, he enjoyed the lessons and would move along with the beats and from birth he has been an absolute angel!! I would recommend this product to anyone! I am already planning to use it with our next child!
My wonderful Babyplus son July 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I started wearing the Babyplus when I was 18 weeks pregnant. My husband was skeptical but I figured it couldn't hurt. I wore it for an hour every morning and an hour every night. (I often wore it in the car since I had a 1 hour commute each way.) I never found the sounds annoying. My son was born alert and calm, he didn't even cry. He was such a good, easy baby, he really only cried if he was gassy or very hungry. He's always had a really good disposition and people (even strangers) often comment about how sweet, happy and easy going he is. He's reached all his milestones early. He rolled over, sat up and crawled early. He took his first steps one week shy of becoming 10 months old and was fully walking at 11 months.
I've also taught him sign language. He picked it up very quickly and he also started speaking at an early age. His language amazes me. He turned 16 months old a few days ago and can sign over 50 signs, can speak over 120 words and even say 12 words in Spanish (most children I know his age say less than 10 words)! He can count to three (and sometimes throws in a 6 or 8 while I count). He knew all the body parts (and not just the usual eyes, ears, nose but also shoulders, neck, elbows, etc) and all the animals and their sounds younger than his peers. He loves music. He LOVES books and could spend hours each day being read to or just flipping through his books on his own. Sometimes he'll even say what is coming up on the next page before he or I even turn the page. He picks new things up so effortlessly. I only had to show him once for him to learn to put his dirty clothes in the hamper, put his toys away in the toybox and throw garbage in the trash can. He loves to help and clean. We've traveled with him a lot and he adjusts very well to new environments and people. He's very smart and very sweet. He's so good natured and such a joy to parent. I don't know how much of it was the Babyplus and how much is genetic and nature/nurture but I will definitely be using the Babyplus for any/all next pregnancies. I've even had a couple parents ask me what my secret was (after being impressed by my son) and I tell them I used the Babyplus. (I also think the sign language and reading a lot has played an important role).
I highly recommend using the Babyplus if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant!
Amazing baby! Baby Plus or baby's genes? July 12, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was skeptical about the claims of this product, but as a first time mom I wanted to do everything right. I used it faithfully daily. morning and night. I found the rhythmic tempos calming, but others found it annoying. Well out comes Ethan 9 weeks later with eyes wide open! The nurses were amazed at his alertness! He latched and breastfed immediately, slept through the night at 2 weeks, hardly ever cries, has an excellent attention span, and is observant of everything. We get comments about him all the time regarding how alert and inquisitive he is. Also, he loves music and is especially talented at keeping rhythm. He started playing the bongo drums at 3 months! I don't know if this product is responsible for this wonderful baby or not, but it can't hurt to try it!
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