Hello Mommies to Be! Did you know your child is not merely feeling inside the womb but remembers everything you say and do? Cheer up and feel blessed mommies that you can impart values to your child within the womb. Virtue Baby knows how you wish to make this connection with your baby as soon as possible, and we have an idea to help you do it much simply. A mother is like an antenna, she can filter out those things she doesn’t wish to transfer in her baby.

‘’THE TIME IS NOW!’’ Start nourishing a personality for a beautiful world just by gifting moral virtues to your child. You know? What you see, is what your baby envisions! What you hear, your baby overhears! What you eat, your baby will savor!  You are ready to do everything for your baby right? So, for your child’s personality development, learn to forgive, take things lightly and shape the best of the personality of your child by concentrating on your sanskars which are going to be a part of your child’s Sanskar. And stress? Nah! That’s certainly not good for your sweetie, so we will simply put an end to that, Right?

Remember you are a celestial vessel for a new life to spark within and what you can try is regular storytelling with a moral message which is a great way to introduce virtues into your unborn child. It strengthens the bond with friends and family; teaches compassion; enhances the intellect and the hold on the language.

Zakir Hussain also learned from his mother’s womb the art of being a Tabla maestro; it’s time for your child dear mommies? Think about it!

There’s a lot to learn! ‘’Garbha Sanskars’’ are important and this eternal bond of mother and child is the gift of divinity who has given all the mothers the power to inculcate these ‘’virtues within the womb’’. What shall we do now? Let us plan your ‘’child’s personality’’ because your first nine months are integral in forming your child’s entire life. 

Weave the spiritual bond between you and your baby! Focus on more meaningful messages to send ‘’positive as well as happy vibrations’’ to your baby and enjoy being parents to a cheerful and virtuous baby.

We are proud to announce Virtue Baby Workshop for all the expecting parents. This workshop is going to focus on the most sensitive aspects of pregnancy, with a motto to provide you a stress-free and happy pregnancy. The prime aim of our workshop is to introduce you to the importance of including virtues/values to your baby in the womb itself.

THE WORKSHOP WILL BE HELD IN THREE DIFFERENT MODULES:

1. Accepting Parenthood Gracefully, Fetal Psychology, Parental Bonding & Diet.

• To feel the connection between you and the baby.
• To understand the effect of your surroundings and thoughts on the unborn.
• To know the proper diet for yourself to live a healthy pregnancy.

Date – 4th of October 2015 | Fee: 1000 INR

2. Labor of Love, Yoga & Physiotherapy, Understand Labor and its Stages

• Understand that labor is not just a physical aspect
• Create your own labor, for a lesser painful experience & quick recovery.

Date: 18th of October 2015 | Fee: 1000 INR

3. Stress Management Value Empowerment, Meditation

• Relieve Stress & Tensions
• Create a Virtue Baby: An emotionally Strong and Morally uplifted Baby.

Date: 1st of Nov 2015

Fee: You can pay entry fee in cash at venue on workshop day, not need to pay online.

The workshops will be showcased under the bright presence of Dr. Nitika Sobti, Senior Consultant, Obs Gynae, MAX Super Specialty Hospital, Shalimar Bagh, New Delhi.

Time: 09:30am to 12:00pm

Location: ND-19, Pitampura, New Delhi-110034

To know more, Call at +91-8130292616, +91-9999593288
Or visit our website www.virtuebaby.com

The fetus lives in a stimulating matrix of sound, vibration, and motion. Many studies now confirm that voices reach the womb. A mother's voice is particularly powerful because it is transmitted to the womb through her own body reaching the fetus in a stronger form than outside sounds. Some musical sounds can cause changes in metabolism. "Brahm's Lullabye," for example, played six times a day for five minutes in a premature baby nursery produced faster weight gain than voice sounds played on the same schedule. Researchers in Belfast have demonstrated that reactive listening begins at 16 weeks g.a. This is especially significant because reactive listening begins eight weeks before the ear is structurally complete at about 24 weeks. These findings indicate the complexity of hearing, lending support to the idea that receptive hearing begins with the skin and skeletal framework, skin being a multireceptor organ integrating input from vibrations, thermo receptors, and pain receptors. This primal listening system is then amplified with vestibular and cochlear information as it becomes available.

At 16 weeks the unborn baby is particularly receptive to its mother’s voice. This is because the vibrations that travel through her body to the womb are stronger than noises coming from outside the womb. At 20 – 24 weeks, the unborn baby can recognize the deeper tones of its father's voice.

Around 24 weeks

Babies develop preferences for music while in the womb. Fridman (2000)[3] found that the babies’ heart rates increased and that they moved around in rhythm to the music. Once born, the infant responds more to certain music.

From 24 weeks

Unborn babies respond to the rhythm of being read to. They will move about and kick. Studies by DeCasper and Fifer (1980)[7] and Kolata (1984)[8] found that infants who were read 'A Cat in a Hat' twice a day 6.5 weeks before birth would suck more if they heard 'A Cat in a Hat' read by their mother rather than an unfamiliar children’s poem 'The King, the Mice, and the Cheese', also read by the infants’ mothers.

The parents of the unborn child can stimulate their infant and develop early communication skills by introducing their child to music and reading right from the start. The development of listening before birth is vital to the progression of listening and attention skills after birth.

The uterus isn't exactly the quietest place to hang out. Not only can a baby hear the sounds of his mom's body—her stomach growling, her heart beating, the occasional hiccup or burp—but he can also hear noises from beyond.

During the first two months of pregnancy, neurons (i.e., brain cells) start to branch off the main part of your baby’s growing brain to different areas of the body, including your baby’s mouth. At the same time, taste buds begin forming where your baby’s tongue will be. These clusters of receptors will eventually recognize five tastes: sweet, salty, bitter, sour and umami. By week 8 of pregnancy, neurons from the brain will have connected with these developing taste buds. But your baby can’t quite taste the surrounding amniotic fluid yet: He or she still needs taste pores, or small pits on the surface of the tongue that allow the molecules from food to come in contact with the taste receptors that make up taste buds.

By around week 16, these taste pores will have developed. By now, your baby will also have started swallowing amniotic fluid. As the fluid flows across her tongue on the way to her digestive system, molecules in the fluid will interact with the taste buds, and your baby will experience her first taste: salty amniotic fluid. The amount of amniotic fluid she swallows — and the number of tastes she has exposure to — will keep increasing throughout the second and third trimesters. By week 21, she’ll be swallowing several onces a day.

What You Taste, Your Baby Tastes

Even though your digestive system is separate from your baby’s, molecules of the food you eat make their way into the amniotic fluid — not only vitamins, minerals, fats and proteins, but also some of the molecules that give foods their unique tastes. The flavors your baby tastes inside the womb, though, won’t be quite as strong or distinct as those you taste. That’s because much of what you think of as the flavor of a food is actually its smell, which is transmitted to your nose through the air. Since your baby is surrounded by amniotic fluid, she only tastes molecules from your bloodstream and doesn’t have the sense of smell yet to amplify those flavors. But even with this blunted sense of taste, your baby will start to recognize foods. Eat a spicy meal and you might even feel her hiccup!

Encouraging A Broad Palate

Research has shown that the foods you eat during pregnancy influence the foods that your baby will like for years to come. In one study, mothers who drank carrot juice during the last trimester of pregnancy had babies who, once they started weaning, made fewer negative faces when fed carrot juice. Another 2012 study found that pregnant rats that ate lots of junk food and had diets high in fat, salt and sugar gave birth to babies who preferred these foods and disliked healthy foods. Some scientists say that the foods you eat during pregnancy could literally shape your baby’s eating habits — and her odds of obesity and diabetes — throughout the rest of her life.

So what flavors should you expose your baby to during pregnancy? Aim to eat a balanced and varied diet, and choose fresh fruits and vegetables over salty, processed snacks. This not only helps keep you healthy during pregnancy, but it also sets the stage for your baby to love healthy, diverse tastes. And don’t shy away from eating flavorful foods that you enjoy and want your baby to learn to like, too: Distinct flavors like garlic, mint and curry are among those that are transmitted most strongly through your amniotic fluid.

The evidence for direct and indirect learning of odors in utero has been reviewed by Schaal, Orgeur, and Rogan (1995). They point to an extraordinary range of available odiferous compounds, an average of 120 in individual samples of amniotic fluid! In addition, products of the mother's diet reach the baby via the placenta and the blood flowing in the capillaries of the nasal mucosa. Thus, prenatal experience with odorants from both sources probably prepare this sensory system to search for certain odors or classes of odors. In one experiment, babies registered changes in fetal breathing and heart rate when mothers drank coffee, whether it was caffeinated or decaffeinated. Newborns are drawn to the odor of breastmilk, although they have no previous experience with it. Researchers think this may come from cues they have learned in prenatal life.

The first dramatic motion, one that has come to symbolize life itself, is the first heartbeat at about three weeks after conception. This rhythmic activity continues while valves, chambers, and all other parts and connections are under construction--illustrating an important fact about development: parts are pressed into service as they become available. Furthermore, use is necessary for development. 

Between week six and ten, fetal bodies burst into motion, achieving graceful, stretching, and rotational movements of the head, arms and legs. Hand to head, hand to face, hand to mouth movements, mouth opening, closing, and swallowing are all present at 10 weeks. By 14 weeks, the complete repertoire of fetal movements seen throughout gestation are already in evidence. Movement is spontaneous, endogenous, and typically cycles between activity and rest.

Breathing movements and jaw movements have begun. Hands are busy interacting with other parts of the body and with the umbilical cord. From this early stage onward, movement is a primary activity, sometimes begun spontaneously, sometimes provoked by events. Spontaneous movement occurs earliest, probably expressing purely individual interests and needs. Evoked movement reflects sensitivity to the environment. For example, between 10 and 15 weeks g.a., when a mother laughs or coughs, her fetus moves within seconds. The vestibular system, designed to register head and body motion as well as the pull of gravity begins developing at about 8 weeks. This requires construction of six semicircular canals, fluid-filled structures in the ears, which are sensitive to angular acceleration and deceleration, and help maintain balance.

3 W – First Heart Beat

6 - 10 W – Head, Arms And Legs Movements;

10 W – Hand To Head, To Face, To The Mouth, Mouth Movement And Swallowing;

10 - 15 W – Reactive Movement To Environment (Mother Cought or Laughter)

14 W – Complete Fetal Movement - Breathing And Jaw Movement

Ultrasound technology enables us to clearly observe the fetus in the womb.

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Pregnant women usually first feel their baby move between 16-20 weeks gestation.

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The first movements are seen on ultrasound at 8 weeks gestation.

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The fetus can suck his/her thumb from 20 weeks.

The maternal womb is an optimal, stimulating, interactive environment for human development. Activity never ceases and a fetus is never isolated. Touch, the first sense, is the cornerstone of human experience and communication, beginning in the womb (Montagu, 1978). 

Just before 8 weeks gestational age, the first sensitivity to touch manifests in a set of protective movements to avoid a mere hair stroke on the cheek. Skin sensitivity quickly extends to the genital area (10 weeks), palms (11 weeks), and soles (12 weeks). These areas of first sensitivity are the ones which will have the greatest number and variety of sensory receptors in adults. By 17 weeks, all parts of the abdomen and buttocks are sensitive. Skin is marvelously complex, containing a hundred varieties of cells which seem especially sensitive to heat, cold, pressure and pain. 

By 32 weeks, nearly every part of the body is sensitive to the same light stroke of a single hair. Your baby uses this newfound sense of touch to explore his/her environment in the womb by stroking his or her face, sucking on a thumb, touching the rest of his/her body, touching the uterine wall and the umbilical cord.

Another study, using 4-D scans, published in 2013 by Durham and Lancaster universities “found, for the first time, that a fetus was able to predict, rather than react to, his/her own hand movements towards his/her mouth as they entered the later stages of gestation compared to earlier in a pregnancy”. This showed that, in the womb, babies open their mouths before bringing their hands to their mouths. Touch, the strongest sense at birth, is a critical survival sense and is the main way in which infants learn about their environment and bond with other people. Most of what a newborn learns about the world is learned through touch—holding, caressing, dressing, diapering, cuddling, etc.

Humans have five basic senses: Sight, smell, taste, hearing and touch. You may be wondering just when, during your pregnancy, your tiny baby can start feeling, smelling, tasting, hearing and see. You will be surprised to know that it is a lot earlier than you think!

Week Wise Pregnancy and Fetus Development from Virtue Baby

Your Baby’s Senses – When do they develop?  Your baby’s senses begin to develop from the moment of conception with all the senses established by week 8 (gestational age) but maturing at varies rates. What this means is that although the senses begin to develop very early on, they only really start functioning properly later in your pregnancy.

• Sensitivity to Touch
• The Fetus In Motion
• Tasting and Smelling
• Listening and Hearing
• Development of Vision