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Baby Plus: Learning in the womb?

When I found out I was pregnant for the first time I was understandably, very excited. I couldn’t wait for our first baby to be born and would talk about nothing else if I could get away with it.

I would read anything I could get my hands on about pregnancy and the baby inside me. I would trawl the internet at every opportunity to read up on what my baby would be doing this week and the latest trends in foetus development.

I read about the virtues of baby massage in the womb, and the benefits of playing music to your growing stomach. I was now permitted to buy all the mother and baby magazines I could get my hands on!!

It was in one of these magazines that I came across the “BabyPlus”. It was pitched to me, in the advert, along the same lines as a playing music to your unborn baby.

Something which I liked the sound of, but had not yet gotten round to. So I decided to investigate a bit further.

I had a good read of the Baby Plus website. Now I am not going to give you a huge amount of detail about what it does because you can read that for yourself on the website. However what I will do is tell you what I did and what the results were.

The baby plus is a beat machine in a pouch that you place by your baby belly for 2 hours a day, 1 hour morning and 1 at night. It lets off a sound that is like your heart beat. The sound comes in various lessons ranging from a basic beat you use at the start to a more complicated set of beats by the 16^th and final lesson.

I used this from 23 weeks through to 40 weeks, but they say you can start as early as 18 weeks. They say on the website that the purpose is to stimulate the baby's brain before birth. However when ever I explained it to anyone (and people use to ask lots of questions when your bump is making ticking noises!!) I would say the following.

“Imagine if you were a baby, snuggled up somewhere warm, with food on tap, a rocking motion all the time and just a lovely steady heart beat to listen to all day. How great would it be? Then one day, all of a sudden you were squeezed through this tight hole, with no more food on tap, cold air all around, and loads of unfamiliar noises. How grumpy would you be!! Wouldn't you cry for a while, be fed up and confused! Well this is how I think babies feel when they are born.

Baby plus, as I see it, does not make them the next Einstein by stimulating their brain. It does however give them a taste of what is in the big wide world. It makes your unborn baby think “hey there is something else going on out there!” It therefore makes birth, and all the confusion that goes with it a bit less daunting!

If you read the website it makes you all sorts of promises concerning your baby character, creative flair and developmental achievements. I can only tell you what I have found with my own daughter. I don't know whether she would have turned out like this anyway, but I genuinely think that Baby Plus played a part.

Macy, my little girl, was born on the 23^rd April 2006. She is presently 9 weeks old so it is hard to say if she will be a great composer but what I do know is that she is a very calm and content baby.

She never cries!! (Ha-ha, I am only kidding, of course she cries) However she only cries if she needs something, if we forget to feed her or she is tired and needs her bed. She is also very content to look around. She will wake up and lay in her cot just looking around and waiting for us to go and get her. If she is tired she lets us know so we can put her in her bed. She is then quite happy for us to leave her as she puts herself to sleep.

Macy also seems to adapt to most situations well, I can schlep her anywhere and she seems to enjoy the new environment she finds herself in. She enjoys the mall, and was content staying over at friend's house for the night in her travel cot.

Macy is also very happy when looking around places. She seems to enjoy having things to look at. If you sit in the same place too long she can get bored and grumpy but a walk around the house for a look around can cheer her up.

Macy has always slept well in block of around 3-4 hours at the start now she is getting a 7 hour sleep through the night. During the first few weeks she slept so much I would wake her to feed! Everyone would say I was mad, don't wake a sleeping baby.

I used Baby Plus regularly and found the little bag that the beats machine went in easy to wear. I worked up until I was 37 weeks and managed to find an hour before and after work to put it on. Every night when I came home I would put on my bag and lay down and listening to it beating. This was my favourite time. It was a great way to force me to relax. Also each time I played it Macy would move and kick around as if she was dancing. It made me feel connected and helped me bond with this little being inside me that would become my daughter.

Now this could all be just the character of my little girl, but I do feel that Baby Plus played a part. How much of a part is impossible to say! It costs about AU$200 to buy and I found it to be well worth the money.

I would recommend it to anyone that has a bit of spare cash and would like to have a bit of fun with your unborn baby.

Chantel
YouAreBorn
(P.S. I am in no way affiliated with the company that makes Baby Plus, I just used it and thought I'd share my experience).

Please find below some other testimonials taken from the Baby Plus website; www.babyplus.com

"We would like to share our testimony of our son, Calen, who is now 3 years old…in three weeks. When he was born, the nurse stood over me with Calen in her arms ready to give him to me. I was talking to the nurse and he immediately turned his head and looked right at me. The nurse was ASTOUNDED! In addition, he never cried, except of course the usual gas…

He made all the milestones months before the markers. In fact, I was in the pediatrician's office checking off the usual indicators to show if there are any “problems”…at every appointment, I started to think that this kid is some kind of genius! At 14 months old, he had a vocabulary with over 140+ words, including pro-nouns, verbs, adjectives and nouns. He would say things like “The red truck is here” or “Daddy is standing over there”, never missing a beat.

At 28 months, he would correct his older sisters in their grammar….they are 15 years old and 17 years old.

All who have been around him notice his comprehension. My mother-in-law (who raised 8 children) can not believe she is talking to a child almost 3, she constantly states it is like talking to a 10 year old.

Last month, we were shopping in Costco strolling down the aisle. Calen did his usual of talking away, usually reciting something he has recently learned. We were almost to the end of the aisle and he says “Mommy, Oct – o – pus, has three syllables!” The lady coming around the corner just about fell over with shock. She asked him his name and he stared up in the air and said “duuuuhhhhhh”. As soon as she left, he said our last name and said…”Mommy, our last name has three syllables also!” The lady was just out of ear shot and turned and smiled….I told her…”Oh, hell be three next month”.

Kindest Regards,
Kim 3 Syl-lab-bles

P.S. Now that he is more intelligent than me…is there an instruction manual?! LOL

"Baby Plus has been a wonder for us. I was soo faithful at first then was so busy with the new baby coming that I slacked off around 30 weeks. It didn't matter, I had done enough. You know it makes you feel fantastic when you know you have done something wonderful for your child. Sometimes in this crazy world you feel like you aren't doing enough for your child but I will swear by Baby Plus, it gives your child and you the perfect start. The bonding, each heartbeat brings another movement from your baby and each movement is an experience and each experience brings a smile. It gives you a moment with your baby that you might not have had and I can remember those like they were yesterday. Seeing her bright eyes when she was placed in my arms, amazing, something I didn't expect, no crying, after that first moment of her life, it was un-real. The sleeping...NOTHING can explain that. I fully expected to be up all night.. not so. The only reason I got up was to make sure she ate, I even checked with the Doctor and he said " if you can bottle that, you'd make a gazillion dollars!" He's right, Baby Plus is worth it! I can nap if I want, even now when our baby is 22months old. There has never been a night, unless she was sick that she hasn't slept all the way through the night and that has happened less than 5 times since day one. I was given Baby Plus as a gift, it was the best gift we received. Thank you Lisa for thinking of us! I will use this again when we are pregnant with our second child. Did I forget to mention that our daughter has exceeded where she should be at this point in her life. All of 22 months?

Thank You for creating Baby Plus!!!"

Dena B.
Fishers, Indiana

"I found out about BabyPlus when doing research on the Internet and decided to give it a try. I began using it at 18 weeks and got used to the beating over time (my husband used to joke that I was like the crocodile that swallowed the clock from Peter Pan). How happy am I from the results! My son Benji is just 4 months old (see picture) and sitting up already. From the moment he was born he has been a calm, alert baby. He nursed great right away and the nurses in the hospital would comment on how good he was. His cries are really only when he is hungry or tired, and even at that the duration very short and not intense. He is very observant and everywhere I go, strangers comment on how content and happy he behaves. He has been playing with the toys on his vibrating chair since he was 2 weeks old and he plays with toys on average 1 1/2 months ahead of the recommended age. My mother and mother-in-law are constantly telling me how lucky I am that he is so good and I attribute it to BabyPlus. It was well worth the money and all my subsequent pregnancies will be punctuated by the beat of BabyPlus."

Casey Z.

"My daughter Ryleigh is now 26 months. I used Baby Plus starting at 19 weeks pregnant with her. Of course, everyone I told was skeptical, but I thought, "What can it hurt?". When she was born, she was alert and didn't cry at all. She was sleeping through the night from the day we brought her home; I had to wake her up in the middle of the night to eat, but she went right back to sleep. She then of course hit all of her milestones early; sitting by herself at 5 months, crawling at 6 months, walking at 9 1/2 months. She weaned herself from a bottle. She took her last drink from a bottle the day of her first birthday and never wanted it again. She was drinking diluted juice out of a straw at 5 months (of course we held the cup for her). And she used a fork and spoon at 13 months. Since her 1st birthday it has been one amazing accomplishment after another. People that meet her think she is closer to 4; not having just turned 2. She retains information and has a memory that is unbelievable; she will bring up something in clear detail that happened 3 months before that hasn't even been talked about since. She can sing pretty much any song she hears on the radio and knows every nursery rhyme/song by heart. She has conversations with people around her like a 5 year old as her speech is completely intelligible. She has been saying her ABCs since 20 months and can count to 20. She also knows all colors and shapes which she has known for the last couple of months. And she also is the most outgoing child. She gets along well and shares with all of her friends at Mother's Day Out and had no separation anxiety about going. We so look forward to all of her accomplishments and we enjoy watching her amaze us every day. I am now 36 weeks pregnant with our second daughter and I have been using the Baby Plus with this one as well, beginning at 20 weeks. At 27 weeks I had to go into the hospital as I was having some very strong Braxton Hicks that my doctor was concerned about. The L&D nurse told us that our baby was just very active and they have rarely seen such neurological development in a fetus of 27 weeks. She said that typically they don't see a fetus' brain development that active until 33 weeks. So we are pretty sure that Baby Plus will benefit this one as well.

Thank you for such a great product and I recommend it to EVERYONE!"

Jennifer & Brad A.
Corinth, TX