How To Stimulate Your Baby’s Intelligence During Pregnancy
Research has shown a close link between fetal stimulation and a child’s intelligence, motor skills, language and social abilities. All of this is important when you want to develop your child’s intelligence and talents.
What kind of stimulus promotes a child’s intelligence?
These days, it is common to see a pregnant woman with headphones on her belly. Research confirms that by playing music for the baby in the womb, the baby’s learning ability increases and intelligence develops much faster after birth.
The same argument can be applied to those mothers who read to their child during pregnancy. As soon as the child’s hearing has developed, the mother can, through reading, help her child to develop the language at an early stage.
Another thing that promotes the fetus’ intelligence and learning during pregnancy is to teach the baby words through action.
An example is that you pronounce a word clearly and at the same time perform the action. It helps the child to associate the word with the action and when it is born the child can learn faster.
Many infants have shown that they recognize voices or music that they heard during the fetal stage. When the mother wants to calm her baby, she holds the baby with her head on her left side where the baby can listen to her heart and calm down. It is a sound that the baby recognizes and calms it.
By stimulating the senses, you develop your child’s intelligence
Fetal stimulation has become very popular. The fetus is exposed to a great variety of stimulation in the stomach and when the baby recognizes these, it learns to react to each of them.
This recurring exposure stimulates the central nervous system and helps the baby increase its intelligence during the fetal stage.
Infants who are stimulated during pregnancy develop better motor skills, vision, hearing and language. These children also gain greater self-confidence and are more alert and more satisfied with themselves compared to children who are not stimulated during pregnancy.
Music and voices used to stimulate the baby during pregnancy usually have a calming effect on the baby after birth. Studies have shown that fetal stimulation has a positive effect on the baby’s learning ability after birth and that it continues throughout childhood.
There is also evidence that children stimulated during pregnancy can handle stress in a better way, and this shows a more developed central nervous system. When the mother caresses her stomach, she calms both herself and her child. It relieves anxiety and strengthens the bond between them.
When can you start stimulating your baby during pregnancy?
The best time to start stimulating your baby is during the third month of pregnancy. Even if your hearing does not develop until the fifth month, you can use sensory stimulation, light and vibration, and starting in the fifth month, you can start using music and singing.
The fetus is also affected by your emotion. When the mother can relax, it makes it easier for the baby to do the same thing. Relaxation reduces stress and develops the child’s brain.
How the parents interact with the fetus in the womb can have far-reaching effects on the child. The child feels loved and thus also safe.
It is important that the stimulation is done in an orderly manner; it makes it much easier for your child to organize the information in their brain. It is important not to overstimulate your baby, as this can create stress. The child is not yet able to handle all the information properly.
