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Summary: Thank You, Dr. Wirth!
Review: At last! As a parent, I am so happy (and relieved) to recommend Dr. Wirth's great new book. The connection between physical and spiritual wellbeing has long been clear for adults. Making the same link to an unborn child and offering such specific...and well documented...assistance should be a welcome adddition to the preparation of all expectant couples. Easy to understand, easy to follow, Dr. Worth's guidance is like having a trusted, world-class physician there every step of the way. I've shared the book with all of my pregnant couples, and each and every one has taken the book to ehart. Thank you, Dr. Wirth!
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Summary: Finally! - a "Mind/Body Connection" approach to pregnancy
Review: Dr. Dean Ornish taught us how meditation (along with nutritious eating and exercise) could reduce heart disease. Deepak Chopra explained how keeping your mind active could help retard physical aging. And now Dr. Frederick Wirth shows us in a very easy to read and inspiring book how the spiritual and psychological health of a pregnant woman has been proven to effect the health and brain development of her child. The evidence is there - ("Linking Infant Mortality and Stress - Many experts now conclude that stress causes release of hormones that weaken the uterus, leading to premature delivery or mortality," NY Times, Feb. 6, 2002) and the logic is obvious - you can't just take prenatal vitamins and exercise a little during pregnancy and expect to have a healthy baby if you're also angry, stressful, anxious, fighting with your partner or not sleeping. Think of the "acid rainshowers" you're causing in that womb. Dr. Wirth explains how meditation, relaxation, spirituality and "fetal love breaks" can improve pregnancies and lessen the likelihood of premature births. This is information that every pregnant woman should have. Thank you, Dr. Wirth!
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Summary: Every Pregnant Parent's must have handbook
Review: Dr. Wirth got my attention immediately with his passionate story about his friend's son. I disagree with the library journal's comment regarding it's clinical nature. On the contrary, Dr. Wirth's book is easily read and understood by the lay reader, the pregnant mom, her partner, parents and friends. Virtually anyone who wants to help positively influence the architecture of the unborn child's brain and participate in a good pregnancy outcome should pick up this beautifully written book and read about Dr. Wirth's tried and true techniques.
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Summary: WOW an amazing look on the effects you have on your unborn
Review: Dr. Wirth is a physician with a true passion for what he does. As a perinatalogist/neonatologist, he's worked closely with premature babies and thus has been able to study closely why they have been born under early circumstances. His findings are well supported by research both on the field and within his own findings. He explains clearly, in layman's terms, how the mother and her partner have a HUGE influence on laying the architectural framework of the baby's brain while they are still in-utero, that is, still in the mother's womb. The parent's attitudes, emotions, mental health, and spiritual health greatly impact the laying down of this framework, and ultimately affect your child's temperement, disposition, personality, ability to deal with stress, etc... This book not only educates you about the developmental processes at work, but does so in a manner that is interesting, and nothing at all like a boring didactic schoolbook. Not only for those who want to prevent a premature birth, but also for those who wish to bring their baby into this world with the advantage of feeling loved, secure, balanced, and ready to learn with an easy disposition that can ultimately have a lifetime effect well into adulthood. Dr. Wirth will show you how to be at peace, be happy, be positive, and be spiritual during this important time. Not only for expectant mothers, but for their partners, family members, the grandparents, or simply anyone who is fascinated by the human bonds which can be created during conception and during the formative years thereafter.
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Summary: A Very Inspirational Book
Review: I truely loved reading this book. It is extremly enlightening and amazingly interesting. I'm way beyond my child bearing years, and I wish this book was there for me. The exercises that Dr. Wirth discribes are wonderfully relevant even if you're not pregnant. the emotinional and spiritual wisdom is good for all ages and especially for those mother's and fathers expecting a child. I recommend this book highly....Jacquie Greenberg
Phila. Pa.
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Summary: This is a life changing Program!!
Review: I was introduced to Dr. Wirth's work at a convention. His whole pregnancy approach to building a better life for the baby through the "Peaceful Womb" and getting Dad and Mom fully involved with making time for the baby before the baby is born, was a new concept to most in the lecture. The idea of "Fetal Love Breaks" every day, the Exercise videos and relaxing CDs that go with the program are great. I really enjoyed attending the Prenatal Parenting Program classes, too. Until you experience Dr. Wirth's peaceful concept of creating greater neurological development in the baby's brain through greater couple communication, it is difficult to understand how very deeply we are involved daily with the cellular creation of this baby. Thank you Dr. Wirth for creating the Prenatal Parenting Program with all the Classes, books, workbooks, tapes and CD's to support our learning about the importance of conscious creation and birth of the peaceful child. I know it has changed my life and the lives of many babies, children and mothers.
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Summary: Conflicting advice, misleading title
Review: The first 90 pages or so of this book are very interesting. They claim the mother's stress level and mood form the baby's brain architecture. They cite 'personal experiences' of stressed out moms who have messed up suicidal kids. The conflicting advice is, being told stress leads to damaged children makes you feel quite, um, stressed. At first this guilt-inducing theory was unexplained.
Then the rest of the book kicked in.
From page 100 on, it's a very religious, you need God in your life born-again book.
Ah, all becomes clear. Soon the author reveals himself as one who believes women should stay in the home, and calmingly incubate the baby (while serving their husband). Working women take on the stress that creates ADD kids. Ah. The perfect book for the Trent Lott/Pat Robertson set.
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Summary: Stay away from this one
Review: The premise of this book is extremely disturbing for any new parent. Wirth is telling us that if our babies are born prematurely, suffer from health problems or emotional problems later in life, or even just have colic--that we simply didn't love them enough while they were in the womb. Or that our husbands didn't love us enough or that we weren't strong enough spiritually. He tells a story of a young man who suffered from colic as a baby, became increasingly reckless as a youth, and eventually died in an accident in his 20s. Wirth traces this all back to a father who was not supportive of his wife and his baby during pregnancy, end of story. I've never wanted to throw a book across a room so much. I hate the thought of parents reading this book before facing a loss of their own, and I found the research he uses to try to back up his claims entirely unconvincing.
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Summary: Prenatal Parenting
Review: This author is obviously very impassioned by his work. He is obviously an intelligent doctor but he writes in a way that is easy to understand and draws you in to the book with tenderness.
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Summary: A must read for expectant parents
Review: This awe-inspiring book exudes passion and brilliance! Through his real life experiences as a neonatalogist, Dr. Wirth presents to expecting parents a revelation to birthing a happy and healthy baby not found in any parenting book. His enthusiasm and knowledge can be both felt and understood in every chapter. His ideas, carefully planned and supported by research, make perfect sense in a world full of stress and neglect for what is truly important. I am convinced that by following Dr. Wirth's advice, my husband and I will be closer than ever during our pregnancy and our child will be born as a reflection of that shared love. I would recommend this book to anyone who is planning on having children, has already had children, or is not really sure parenting is for them. This book will inspire you to be the best parent, or caregiver that a new baby in this world could ever have.
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