The Womb as a Learning Environment (Thomas Verny)
Overview: The Womb as a Didactic Environment. The Alchemy of Relationships. Experience & Brain Structure, Conscious Parenting.
Listen to the following podcast, in which Thomas Verny speaks about tocophobia.
Pregnancy can be a tense time for a mother and her partner, but Dr. Thomas Verny and Pamela Weintraub have outlined ways for parents to communicate with their child in order to relieve stress and create a lasting bond. NURTURING THE UNBORN CHILD diagrams a nine-month program involving such exercises as massage, music and dance to stimulate the relationship between parents and child. Through these techniques parents can learn how to analyze their fears during pregnancy and create ways to alleviate them permanently. NURTURNING THE UNBORN CHILD is an essential guide to learning how to communicate with and stimulate your baby before it commences its journey to the outside world.
How does a mother’s tone of voice affect her unborn child? What kind of music, if any, should a child be exposed to in the womb?
Can parents influence the predispositions of their child to traits like depression, or something as elusive as basic goodness?
Pre-Parenting explains how even the most ordinary events can evoke a cascade of biological changes in a baby — not only in the brain but also in the immune system and throughout the body. Every experience, from a baby’s trip down the birth canal to the way she is held or spoken to, can shape her health and personality. An internationally recognized expert in early human development, Dr. Verny shows parents how to use this new information to create an ideal environment for their babies, enhance their babies’ intelligence and social skills, and become better parents through “conscious parenting.” Insightful and encouraging, Pre-Parenting is an invaluable guide for parents who want to help actualize their child’s full potential, beginning with conception.
Dear colleagues,
After having studied the educational material in this session, you are kindly asked to write a report to the Ministry of Health of your country addressing the significance of the prenatal/perinatal experience and ask them to introduce what you consider as the most important 3 measures to support the health and the wellbeing of the new generations of children born in the country.
Add this report to your study diary which you will submit to your tutor/ mentor at the end of this lesson/ unit. Thank you.
“It is the mother’s eyes we see it through; it is her joy that evokes our sympathies. We assume her child feels nothing – that he is an innocent bystander at the celebration. This is simply not true. For his mother, for his father, his birth may represent an unperishable memory, the fulfilment of a life-long dream, but for the child himself, it is something much more momentus – an event the imprints itself on his personality. How he is born – whether it is painful or easy, smooth or violent – largely determines who he becomes and how he will view the world around him.” Thomas Verny, MD – The Secret Life of the Unborn Child