[*Anna*]

I found this product and am very curious. I know its pretty expensive, but if it works well it could be very benefital for the growing baby

What do you think? Would you use it? Watch the demo too as it shows how it works.

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index...ductId=2265792

[KatiInCT]

Very interesting. I have to admit I am a bit doubtful. Part of me wonders if it is more of a nurture sort of thing where the benefit the child is really getting is the type of parents who would buy the product. If you are willing to spend the money I would believe that you would also be more apt to provide interactions after birth that would help the very things mentioned in the demo.

I will be interested in sharing this link with my DH this evening when I see him online to see what he says (he is a music education major). I do know that he has scoffed at putting headphones on the stomach to play music for the baby just because of the volume (i.e. it is fine to play music just no need to use headphones on the belly). My guess is that he may scoff at this as well. I will be sure to share his response.

All that being said I do not think that it would HURT to use. I just don't know how much it would truly help. KWIM?

[~*sierra*~]

I do believe it is possible for babies to "learn" inside the womb, as i witnessed my friends husband coaxing his prenatal baby to move when he was in the womb. The baby totally responded to his daddy's voice!
I am a bit doubtful of this device though, I think i'd rather just play the baby music and have my dh talk or sing to it.

[Mars]

Although I do believe that a child has the ability to learn certain things in the womb I really do not have much faith in these devices. I prefer the old fashion way of talking, singing and touching to help with my "teachings".

[Emma&Jack's Momma]

It seems a little far fetched to me as well and i've never heard of anyone using this product! I would be interested to see if it really does work though, or like Kati said, if it has to do with the time/effort a parent puts into interaction with their newborn!

[Lash]

Although I do believe that a child has the ability to learn certain things in the womb I really do not have much faith in these devices. I prefer the old fashion way of talking, singing and touching to help with my "teachings".[/b]

I agree, and think its the same when they get here. You dont need programs, bunches of plastic toys with colors and shapes and bells and whistles that cost $50 each to teach children. We had geniuses in this world before all of that came along. Albert Einstein played outside, with wooden toys and with things found in the home, not plastic gadets and he sure didnt have a prenatal education system.

Genetics plays 50% into it and you have no choice over that. Otherwise, you can teach without special gadgets. I dont think you'll need it honestly. You want hardcore unbiased actual research to prove that this works. Theories are meaningless- I have tons of theories. Doesnt mean they are true. I wouldnt waste your money

[Mjp121212]

Music and melody are the first things the human brain can process. Even in the womb this begins. I thought I was oh so smart for "developing" a way to get Brayden to talk to me early on in his therapy. We would communicate through melodies. Each thing I said was said or hummed to a melody. Think of when someone says come in. They say it in a melodic way. Well, I had Brayden doing this before he could use words. He would hum the melody for come in, hello, I love you, Mommy, things like that. What I didn't know and learned after I proclaimed my smartness (LOL) was that is a a form of therapy used for stroke patients, brain damaged patients, and developmental delays because the brain is so apt to respond to music.

With that little lesson being typed out: I think spending that kind of money is a load of you know what. You can do the same thing yourself. Reading is the BEST thing for any child, music is good. We did a lot of classical music when Brayden was a baby only because I like to listen to it while I study. And I usually would study while I was nursing him. To this day he picks up music very easily.

I don't think you ahve to spend hundreds of dollars on toys or gadgets at all. the best toys for akid aren't even toys! The ones they have the most fin with are not toys. Brayden has a housefull of toys and yet he would prefer to take a laundry basket of clean towels and build mountains and drive a block through it pretending he is a train.

[soImarriedAnerd]

Nope its not something I would get. "They" are know noticing issues with sounds/noise/music being played from devices placed ON the belly causing issues with hearing and some other brain functions. The media/marketing are the only ones who believe putting something on your belly helps with learning. Remember baby is in water so sounds are 10 louder to them, so if you place something on your belly thats 10 times louder then what you hear. If you want to do the learning in the womb....talk to them/ play music in the room/etc. I just personal would not place anything ON my belly to make it louder to them....they hear what you hear and your voice is the loudest thing to them....some believe that due to your voice being the loudest thing to them-it helps with bonding (where if the device you put on belly is louder it MAY affect that).
All these devices say that studies show fetus hearing sounds/languages/voices that benefit babies use studies that DIDN'T have the object on the belly.....they just had normal everyday activity. I haven't read a study about anything positive from devices on belly playing stuff.
Hey random fact---did you know baby learns its native language (and ones it could learn easier) while IN THE WOMB. Troy and I found this out and was wondering if our future globetrotter baby will be more multi-lingual then us!?

[ANGWife]

Although I do believe that a child has the ability to learn certain things in the womb I really do not have much faith in these devices. I prefer the old fashion way of talking, singing and touching to help with my "teachings".[/b]