Do expectant parents know the effect of prenatal education on the fetus? Music is the best prenatal education. Music is transmitted to the immature brain of the fetus through the mother's nervous system, and has a benign effect on its development and maturity. Now, let me talk about the effect of prenatal education on the fetus.
Education should start from the age of zero, that is to say, from the first day of conception to the birth of the baby, the education of the fetus is called prenatal education. The fetus has auditory responses when it is five months old. The fetus's inner ear, middle ear, external ear and other auditory systems are established at about six months of pregnancy. When the fetus is in the mother's uterus, it will have some sensitivity to external sound stimulation. These reactions include feeling the mother's heartbeat, the rhythm of blood flow, the rhythm of gastrointestinal motility, etc.; so when the mother is immersed in the soft and graceful music, the fetus not only feels the rhythm of the music, but also feels the rhythm of the amniotic fluid and tenderness surrounding it. In the cradle, the baby also grows with the mother's heartbeat and breathing; simply put, what kind of person you want your baby to be and what kind of life you want your baby to live in the future, live such a life in advance during pregnancy! Therefore, good prenatal education during pregnancy does have many benefits for newborns. For example, babies are less likely to cry after birth and improve their emotional IQ index. The recently popular music therapy has also confirmed that regular listening to beautiful and harmonious music can stimulate brain secretion. Hormones increase the body's resistance, and the substances released make the body and mind feel comfortable. Therefore, prenatal education is indeed necessary.
Modern people have paid more and more attention to prenatal education. Fetuses have amazing abilities, and fetal education to develop this ability has attracted more and more attention in recent years. Famous medical experts in the United States say that when a fetus is 6 months old, the number of brain cells is close to that of an adult, various sensory organs have become more mature, and it can respond to stimulation from inside and outside the mother's body. This provides a strong scientific basis for the implementation of prenatal education. The so-called prenatal education is to adjust the internal and external environment of the pregnant woman's body to eliminate the impact of adverse stimulation on the fetus, and to use certain methods and means to actively train and educate the fetus, so that the fetus' physical and mental development will be healthier and more mature. Continuing education after birth lays a good foundation.
Provide prenatal education to the fetus, and the benign stimulation can be stored in a certain functional area of ??the fetus' brain for a long time. When the child grows up and encounters suitable opportunities, his amazing talents will be brought out. Among the several sensory organs of the fetus, the most developed is the auditory system. The fetus has hearing at 19 weeks after conception. By the 28th week, the fetus's sound transmission system has been fully developed, and the fetus can already feel sound stimulation and perform react. The mother's own heartbeat, blood flow, intestinal movements and soft voices are the first objects of hearing for the fetus. The fetus can hear and distinguish various incoming sounds, and can "learn" and form "Memory," affecting postnatal development and behavior. The fetus's sensitivity to sound is almost unimaginable: the fetus listens to melodious sounds happily, the fetus does not like to hear noisy sounds, violent sounds can scare the fetus, and even the mother's sneezing can surprise the fetus.
Music prenatal education is to use the fetus’ keen hearing to give the fetus good and harmonious sound stimulation, promote the healthy development of the fetal nervous system, and achieve the purpose of eugenics and nurturing.
The direct influence of music can provide the fetal brain with sufficient and effective information stimulation, improve future abilities in time and space reasoning, attention, imagination and creativity, and improve brain function. The only way a fetus can communicate with the outside world in the mother's belly is through sound. Beneficial music melody, through systematic and periodic stimulation, can promote the baby's brain development to be more complete and the neural network to be richer, so the future EQ, IQ and physical fitness will be better than that of ordinary children.
Music plays an important role during the entire pregnancy that cannot be underestimated. The beneficiaries of music prenatal education are not only the baby, but also the expectant mother herself. The use of scientific music counseling methods during pregnancy can help pregnant women reduce pregnancy reactions. Music can regulate the psychological, emotional and physiological functions of pregnant women, making her relaxed and happy. Her heart, blood vessels, digestive organs and even endocrine are all in a normal state, which is beneficial to the fetus. development.
We can also use music to reduce anxiety, tension, fear and other negative emotions before delivery. Music can be used to relieve labor pain during delivery, and music can be used after delivery to help mothers sleep better and promote lactation, while also promoting parent-child relationship. We can use scientific music counseling methods to help pregnant women spend the entire perinatal period easily and happily. Magical music, some say it is wordless poetry, some say it is in another language. No matter what, beautiful music can indeed cultivate people's sentiments and enlighten people's minds.
Modern medicine has confirmed that fetuses do have the potential to receive education, which is mainly realized through the central nervous system and sensory organs. Around 26 weeks of pregnancy, the fetal conditioned reflex has basically been formed. Before and after, scientific and appropriate early human intervention can enable the fetal sensory organs to develop more fully under the stimulation of many benign signals. Lay a good foundation for early education. Therefore, the second trimester of pregnancy is the best time to carry out prenatal education and must not be missed.
At present, the following prenatal education measures are widely used at home and abroad:
1. Musical prenatal education method
It mainly uses sound waves to stimulate the fetal auditory organs. Nervous function can be implemented in a planned way from the 16th week of pregnancy. 1 to 2 times a day, 15 to 20 minutes each time, when the fetus is awake and moving. Generally, it is more suitable before going to bed at night. It can be played directly through the radio cassette player. The radio cassette player should be about 1 meter away from the pregnant woman, and the sound intensity should be between 65 decibels and 70 decibels. You can also use a prenatal education microphone and place it directly on the corresponding part of the pregnant woman's abdominal wall on the head of the fetus. The volume can be determined by the sound intensity an adult can hear from the microphone through the palm of his hand, which is equivalent to the sound intensity the fetus can hear in the womb. to debug. For pregnant women with thick abdominal walls, the volume can be slightly louder; for pregnant women with thin abdominal walls, the volume should be appropriately lower. The rhythm of prenatal education music should be gentle and smooth, without lyrics, and the mood of the music should be gentle and sweet. But be careful not to place the radio recorder directly on the abdominal wall of a pregnant woman to listen to the fetus. While the fetus is listening to music, pregnant women should also listen to pregnant women's special tapes with psychological induction words through headphones, or choose their favorite music, and associate the situation with the content of the music, and strive to achieve a relaxed and happy artistic conception. To adjust the mentality and enhance the effect of prenatal education.
2. Dialogue prenatal education method
At 20 weeks of pregnancy, the fetus’s auditory function has been fully established. Not only can the mother's voice be transmitted to the fetus, but the vibration of the chest also has a certain impact on the fetus. Therefore, pregnant women should pay special attention to the tone, tone and wording of their speech in order to give the fetus a good stimulation mark. Dialogue prenatal education requires the participation of both parents, because male bass is relatively easy to pass into the uterus, and over time, it can be regarded as a kind of benign sound wave stimulation. Parents can give the fetus a neutral baby name, such as "Pingping", "Lele", etc., and call it often so that the fetus will remember it firmly. The content of the conversation should not be too complicated. It is best to repeat one or two sentences over a period of time to create a deep memory in the fetal cerebral cortex.
3. Touching prenatal education method
It is the nature of infants and young children to need caressing. After the fetus is gently touched by the mother's hands, it will also cause certain conditioned reflexes, thereby stimulating the fetus' enthusiasm for activities, forming good tactile stimulation, and promoting the coordinated development of brain functions through reflex body peristalsis. Pregnant women should empty their bladders before going to bed every night, lie flat on the bed, relax their abdomen, and use their hands to gently caress the fetus from top to bottom, from right to left, just like stroking a baby after birth, for 5 minutes each time ~10 minutes. However, attention should be paid to gentle hand movements and avoid roughness.
4. Prenatal teaching method of touching, pressing and slapping
After 24 weeks of pregnancy, the head, back and limbs of the fetus can be clearly touched on the pregnant woman's abdomen.
From this point on, pregnant women can lie on their backs on the bed every night, relax their abdomen, and allow the fetus to "walk in the womb" and do "intrauterine gymnastics." Such repeated exercises can enable the fetus to establish effective conditioned reflexes and strengthen the Body muscle strength. After birth, the muscles of the limbs of the fetus that have been exercised are strong and the movements such as raising the head, turning over, sitting, crawling, and walking can be performed earlier. But remember, once the fetus becomes uneasy about kicking, you should stop stimulating it immediately and stroke it gently to avoid accidents.
5. Illumination prenatal education method
The fetal vision develops slower than other sensory functions. The fetus' brain can perceive external visual stimulation only after 27 weeks of pregnancy; before 30 weeks of pregnancy, the fetus cannot gaze at a light source, and it is not until 36 weeks of pregnancy that the fetus can respond to light stimulation. Therefore, starting from the 24th week of pregnancy, use a flashlight (low light) as a light source every day when the fetus is awakening, and illuminate the pregnant woman's abdominal wall in the direction of the fetal head for about 5 minutes each time. Before the end, you can turn off and on the flashlight several times in succession to benefit the fetus. healthy visual development. However, avoid exposure to strong light, and the exposure time should not be too long.