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Prenatal Press Release
Prenatal Parenting Program
Based on the Popular book, Prenatal Parenting: The Psychological and Spiritual Guide to Loving Your Unborn Child by Frederick Wirth, M.D
What the experts are saying about the book Prenatal Parenting:
"Read this book! You will learn
how to improve your birthing experience, as well as the health and
happiness of your unborn child."
C. Everett Koop, M.D., former U.S. Surgeon General
“Please read this book. It just may be the greatest gift you ever give your child. I only wish it was required reading for every parent.”
Steven W. Vannoy, author of The Ten Greatest Gifts We Give Our Children
“Not only will this book enhance the quality of a woman’s pregnancy, but as Dr. Wirth points out and supports with scientific data, it is likely to enhance the newborn’s life experience.”
Dr. Peter Schwartz, Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Reading Hospital and Medical Center, and Chairperson of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologist Ethics Committee
“Rarely do we find such heartfelt love for an unborn child expressed by a rational master of science and medicine. This is a book that all persons, lay and professional, should have in their libraries to help provide optimum conditions for an unborn child’s future life.”
Lori H. Gordon, Ph.D., and Morris Gordon, Ph.D.,
Co-Founders of the PAIRS Foundation, Ltd.
About the Author and Developer of the Prenatal Parenting Program:
Frederick Wirth, M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, has spent 26 years rescuing premature infants as a neonatologist. Dr. Wirth was the physician to Elizabeth Carr, America’s first test tube baby, and has served on several presidential and gubernatorial task forces on infant mortality. He and his wife, Linda developed The Institute For Perinatal Education and now live in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
Description of the Prenatal Parenting Program:
There is an unfortunate misconception among parents of young children. They believe that their child’s emotional health depends on how they are parented after birth and they miss the important opportunity of parenting their children during pregnancy. The brain centers that create and control our emotions are present before birth, and the emotional tone of a child develops before birth and is practically set for life by age three years. That is why babies’ behaviors are so different right from birth, as every grandmother knows. An expectant mother shares the emotional content of her life with her unborn child. In fact, she cannot hide what she thinks, feels and experiences from her unborn child. In this way, the wisdom of her view of her environment is delivered to her unborn child. This theoretically prepares unborn children for living in their post birth environment. This certainly was true during the evolution of the human species, but now our modern environment is changing so rapidly that our reproductive biology cannot keep up. A mother who does not properly manage stress during pregnancy is likely to birth an aggressive irritable child.
Pregnant mothers are the brain architects of their developing babies and the “Prenatal Parenting Program” teaches families how to birth babies with peaceful brains and calm, tranquil temperaments. Dr. Wirth and his associates at The Institute For Perinatal Education developed unique communication techniques, which involve more than playing music and singing to unborn children. The program teaches pregnant couples how to 1) release stress, 2) obtain positive flow states, 3) change unwanted behaviors and 4) improve their communication between each other, their unborn child, their relatives, and their healthcare providers. All these techniques change the brain’s mix of neurotransmitters (Dr. Wirth calls them messenger molecules of emotion) that create our emotions. The mother’s messenger molecules cross the placenta and act like little carpenters in the unborn child’s brain. They literally sculpt the nerve wiring of the developing brain-particularly in its emotional centers. Fathers play an important role in prenatal parenting. Few men understand their role during pregnancy. In the course they learn how to build an emotional sanctuary around their unborn child’s mother to help her birth a happy, healthy baby with a peaceful mind.
“The Prenatal Parenting Program” consists of eight learning modules. Each is filled with exercises to manage fears, reduce stress, change unwanted behaviors, and to prepare spiritually and psychologically for the most important gift parents give their child-a healthy and peaceful birth.