Super Baby

by Sarah Brewer and  

Your baby's brain is literally shaped by the stimuli and nutrients it receives -- both in the womb and in the months after birth. Dr. Sarah Brewer looks at the latest scientific research and gives parents practical ways to boost their baby's intelligence. This includes playing musical rhythms to provide a stimulating womb environment, eating the right foods to help your baby's brain develop, taking gentle exercise to improve the flow of oxygenated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 072253597X
• ISBN13: 9780722535974
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Thorsons Publishers
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

My daughter is a SUPER baby thanks to this book and BABYPLUS

This book and the BABYPLUS sytem have had a PROFOUND affect on my daughter, Cary! My daughter was born alert and enormous (a common side affect) at 9 pounds 12 ounces. Despite a tight fit through my 5 foot 3 inch frame and the fact that she got STUCK, her head was big beautiful and perfectly round. No conehead affect. She nursed like a pro..and didn't stop for nearly three years! She has reached EVERY milestone early. She sat unassisted at 4 months, and walked back and forth across the yard like a pro by 10 months. At 1 1/2 she could peddle a 12 inch training wheel bike very quickly up and down the sidewalk. My older daughter wasn't even ready for that bike until her 3rd birthday! At age two she could pump her legs on the swing..high..and no longer needed to be pushed. By age three Cary could read many words and knew all her letters and letter sounds. She could do a perfect cartwheel. Now at age 4 Cary can read any beginner book very well...5 months before kindergarten. She can do back walkovers and back handsprings without any assistance and has been moved from her preschool gymnastics class into a "by recomendation only" competetive team! The coach had to seak out special permission from the owner because this isn't normally done for 4-year-olds. Officially, kids are supposed to be 6 or older to enter the team. She has also been given special permission to attend "open gym" and "back handspring clinics" which are also reserved for kids age 6 and over. She is an amazing violinist. After only 6 months of lessons, she is farther along than many of the kids who are in their third year! Is she over-loaded? NO WAY! She doesn't want to leave and then begs to go back! She wants to wear her leotard to bed everynight. We've compromised on an under-the-jammies solution. I got online today to buy myself a new copy of this book since I had given mine away a few months ago to my pregnant sister-in-law (along with a Brand New Babyplus.) If you're worried about the cost of the program, don't be. Just consider the resale value. That's what I did. I got most of my money back...and my daughter still has 100% of the benefits. I'm beginning to "try" again and will soon be buying another Babyplus. After experiencing the profound affect that the system had on my daugher, I can not imagine carrying a pregnancy without it. It's more than a little advantage. In my opinion, not using it is creating a disadvantage. My daughter has so much SELF_CONFIDENCE! That alone is worth all the money in the world. *********************** The only other major baby-boosting system that I would highly recomend is breast-feeding. Studies show that breastfed babies have higher I.Q.'s. How much higher depends on how long the child is nursed...the longer the better. The World Health Organization recomends a minimum of 2 years! Read all about the importance of breastmilk on brain development in this book! **********************************

A must for expectant parents.

As the researcher who developed the BabyPlus prenatal enrichment system, I was flattered to discover my innovation had been accurately portrayed in one chapter of Sarah Brewer's Super Baby. Neither I nor the technology's manufacturer had prior contact with this physician-author, and that she personally utilized the product before writing about it was highly impressive since both scientific and maternal perspectives are represented. Because the work is intended as a practical guide for parents-to-be, its technical material remains necessarily abbreviated, but several studies in peer-reviewed academic journals over the last decade stand behind the results of my discovery (some are posted in their entirety on easily-located websites), with one independent comparative assessment employing classical music, maternal singing, BabyPlus, and a control group mentioned--from a physician team headed by Mikhail Lazarev, M.D., Ph.D., Chief of the Children's Health Laboratory, Center for Rehabilitative Medicine, Russian Ministry of Health--its newborn and infant outcomes detailed in the popular hour-long British television documentary, "Brave New Babies," narrated by actress Miranda Richardson and aired frequently on The Learning Channel as well as throughout a dozen countries. My own book on the historical, theoretical, and applied aspects of this fascinating subject is due for publication shortly.

Very informative, if incomplete, guide to infant development

This book's tack over other pregnancy and early childhood books is its focus on research related to developing the baby's mental capacity. I have always felt that the vast majority of children, probably including myself, are born and raised in an environment that does not help them deal with the world; instead parents let the public school system teach them the basics of education. The last thing I want for my kids is for them to have to learn things critical to their successful development as a citizen while at the same time dealing with the shock of being in a strange environment with lots of kids they don't know. At times the information gets dry, as there are many references to research, but the author makes an effort to present it in a format that makes sense to the layperson.