How much do you know antenatal training? Do you have any cognition of antenatal training? Do you have an antenatal training when you are pregnant?

When I ask the question to my colleague, his answer is not necessary.

Antenatal training is not what it’s like literally. Is it train your baby to learn? No. However, science and researches show that antenatal training has much relation with the IQ and EQ later developed in kid’s life. Compared with those babies without an antenatal training, antenatal training is advantageous. As far as I am concerned, antenatal training is making stimulations to the baby’s nerve system and develops his feelings of the outer surrounding. Can baby feel what I do to him?

Maybe the answer is yes.

1. When fetus gets two months old after pregnancy, the backbone begins to form.
2. 8 weeks after pregnancy, fetus’s skin can feel, so touch and stroke can develop the growth of brain.
3. 2 months after pregnancy, fetus tries to swim.
4. 3 months after pregnancy, fetus sucks their fingers and anything he can touch with his mouth.
5. 4 months after pregnancy, fetus can hear with his little ears and will be shocked when hearing a big noise. That is why gentle music can help.
6. 5 months after pregnancy, fetus has memories. Mum’s voice can be kept in mind.
7. 5 months after pregnancy, fetus’ kidney works and he can pee in mum’s amniotic fluid.
8. 6 months after pregnancy, fetus can smell and remember mum’s odor.
9. 6 months after pregnancy, fetus kick mum’s womb and amniotic fluid shakes, which stimulates fetus nerve and helps the brain’s growth.

From the above 9 items, you may have more understanding what is antenatal training and how it works. We usually think music, mum’s stroke and voice, and etc helps. That is because these activities offer much stimulation and develop the baby’s feeling system and cognition before he come to the world. It is an advantage.

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