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How to Have a Smarter Baby: The Infant Stimulation Program For Enhancing Your Baby's Natural Development
15 minutes a day to a healther, happier, smarter baby
Dr. Susan Ludington-Hoe’s internationally acclaimed Infant Stimulation Program has shown thousands of parents how to have healthier, happier, and smarter babies. In this important book, Dr. Ludington-Hoe shares with you the remarkable techniques and learning toys she developed and tested—with dramatic results—with parents and children. Stressing the development of a close and loving relationship between you and your child, she shows you what to do at every stage—during pregnancy, the first days after birth and the crucial first six months—to expand your joys in parenting and maximize your baby’s physical and mental potential. You’ll learn how
• Plan a pregnancy diet to promote your baby’s brain growth
• Design a nursery that will stimulate mental and physical development
• Make and/or buy inexpensive toys to accelerate muscular and eye coordination
• Tailor your program to your infant’s needs
• Talk to baby in captivating ways that will encourage language development
• Include father to bond the whole family in a relaxed, nurturing, and loving environment
“An extremely clear treatise on infant development and the use of various toys and techniques designed for each stage.”— Los Angeles Times
Dr. Susan Ludington-Hoe’s internationally acclaimed Infant Stimulation Program has shown thousands of parents how to have healthier, happier, and smarter babies. In this important book, Dr. Ludington-Hoe shares with you the remarkable techniques and learning toys she developed and tested—with dramatic results—with parents and children. Stressing the development of a close and loving relationship between you and your child, she shows you what to do at every stage—during pregnancy, the first days after birth and the crucial first six months—to expand your joys in parenting and maximize your baby’s physical and mental potential. You’ll learn how
• Plan a pregnancy diet to promote your baby’s brain growth
• Design a nursery that will stimulate mental and physical development
• Make and/or buy inexpensive toys to accelerate muscular and eye coordination
• Tailor your program to your infant’s needs
• Talk to baby in captivating ways that will encourage language development
• Include father to bond the whole family in a relaxed, nurturing, and loving environment
“An extremely clear treatise on infant development and the use of various toys and techniques designed for each stage.”— Los Angeles Times
- GenresParenting
352 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published May 1, 1987
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February 29, 2008
I got it off of someone on Freecycle who was also giving away baby name books. I'm not yet done with this book, but I'm probably not going to finish it, so here goes.
OK - it's from the 80s. It's very obviously from the 80s, since one of the things it suggests is laying your baby down to sleep on its stomach or side and put soft cuddly things in their crib, all of which we've known since the early 90s are more likely to cause SIDS.
Like the "Happiest Baby on the Block", it is extremely repetitive. Yeah - babies like black & white bullseye patterns. Got it the first 3 times you wrote about it.
The premise of the book is that you should have an "Infant Stimulation Program" for your child that begins in utero with music, tape recordings of your voice, etc. It just feels a little ridiculous to me.
I did take away some helpful hints about how to tell when your kid is feeling overstimulated, when they want to interact, the importance of talking to them a lot, etc. Maybe I'll even make some checkerboard patterned pieces of paper and see if they like to stare at it like the book says.
OK - it's from the 80s. It's very obviously from the 80s, since one of the things it suggests is laying your baby down to sleep on its stomach or side and put soft cuddly things in their crib, all of which we've known since the early 90s are more likely to cause SIDS.
Like the "Happiest Baby on the Block", it is extremely repetitive. Yeah - babies like black & white bullseye patterns. Got it the first 3 times you wrote about it.
The premise of the book is that you should have an "Infant Stimulation Program" for your child that begins in utero with music, tape recordings of your voice, etc. It just feels a little ridiculous to me.
I did take away some helpful hints about how to tell when your kid is feeling overstimulated, when they want to interact, the importance of talking to them a lot, etc. Maybe I'll even make some checkerboard patterned pieces of paper and see if they like to stare at it like the book says.
January 20, 2012
Book was alright, didn't read entire thing because some of it is utterly useless.
I pick it up occasionally to get some more ideas out of it...overall it's a bit outdated and weird. I will keep it around til she is one, but I am giving it to Goodwill after that.
I pick it up occasionally to get some more ideas out of it...overall it's a bit outdated and weird. I will keep it around til she is one, but I am giving it to Goodwill after that.
January 8, 2009
hmmmmm......
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