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Prenatal Gift Set
Juego de Regalo Prenatal
Model #BE005
Instruction Manual
Manual de Instrucciones
www.bebesounds.com
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Please Read the Following to Enjoy Our Product..................................................4 SECTION I: LISTENING TO YOUR UNBORN BABY Introduction..............................................................................................................................5 Contents.....................................................................................................................................6 Identifying the Fetal Sounds You Will Hear...............
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Research Findings..............................................................................................................15 Instructions for Playing Music to Your Unborn Baby..........................................17 Playing Music to Your Newborn Baby....................................................................19 Instructions for Talking, Singing, and Reading to Your Unborn Baby.........19 Frequently Asked Questions.................................................................
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PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING TO ENJOY OUR PRODUCT • Please have patience. This product requires a little time but the results are wonderful. You should start using it at the begining of your third trimester. ® • What you will hear through our Prenatal Heart Listener will be the natural sounds of your baby. Your doctor uses Doppler ultrasound equipment which produces artifi cial noise by turning movement into ® sound. Our Prenatal Listener amplifi es the actual sounds of your baby. • The best time
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• The provided headset is specially designed to be used with your ® Prenatal Heart Listener . Do not use any other headset. ® • Our Prenatal Heart Listener is completely safe for you and your baby. It does not use any AC current, ultrasound, or radio waves. SECTION I: LISTENING TO YOUR UNBORN BABY INTRODUCTION ® ® Thank you for purchasing our BébéSounds Prenatal Heart Listener . Please read the following material carefully to maximize your enjoyment of this product. It is important to unders
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CONTENTS fi g.3 fig.1 fi g.2 ® foam cover two headsets prenatal heart listener fi g.4 fi g.5 fi g.6 recording cable fetal speakers fetal microphone fi g.7 fi g.8 fi g.9 0 prenatal & postnatal CD adapter 6
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IDENTIFYING THE FETAL SOUNDS YOU WILL HEAR You will hear kicks, hiccups, nutrients passing through the placenta, and, of course, the heartbeat. Each one is distinctive and being able to identify them will signifi cantly enhance your experience. The best way to describe each sound is as follows: Heartbeat: A very soft rapidly beating drum or a galloping horse Kicks: A series of uneven thumps Hiccups: Two rapid, soft drumbeats Nutrients: A whooshing sound A fetal heart beats from 120 to 180 times
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® PRENATAL HEART LISTENER VS. DOPPLER You will notice that the sounds you hear through the Prenatal Heart ® Listener are different from those you hear at your doctor's offi ce. This is because your doctor probably uses Doppler ultrasound equipment which creates electronic noise based on movement. The Prenatal ® Listener , however, is designed to amplify the sounds naturally by using the absolutely safe Bell stethoscope method of amplifi cation. Again, ® the heartbeat heard through the Prena
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR LISTENING TO YOUR UNBORN BABY (See Figs. 10 and 11) 1. Remove the battery cover and install a new 9-volt battery (not included). We recommend using a new battery as an old one will severely ® interfere with the performance of your Prenatal Heart Listener . Be sure to match positive (+) to positive (+) and negative (-) to negative (-). Replace the battery cover. 2. Insert the headset plug into either jack on the unit and put the headset on. For two people to listen at the sam
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fi g.10 power/volume control power indicator battery compartment fi g.11 power/volume control listening cone foam cover headset jack 10
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INSTRUCTIONS TO RECORD YOUR BABY'S SOUNDS (See Figs. 10 and 11) 1. Plug the L-shaped end of the recording cable into either jack of ® the Prenatal Listener . Plug the straight end into the line input of your recorder (some portable recorders do not provide this input). ® 2. Set up your Prenatal Heart Listener for listening to your baby. 3. Adjust the recording level on your recorder if necessary. ® 4. Hold the Prenatal Listener very still and begin recording. Remember, the sound of your heart
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® 3. Set up your Prenatal Heart Listener for listening to your baby. 4. Press the red recording button in the SOUND RECORDER program to begin recording a one-minute sound fi le. You are now recording your baby's sounds. 5. After one minute, the recording will fi nish. Name and save your sound fi le in an appropriate folder. You can now email your sound fi le to family and friends. SECTION II: TALKING & PLAYING MUSIC TO YOUR UNBORN BABY INTRODUCTION Research into the benefi ts of stimulating your
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Dr. Norman A. Ravski, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine, and Attending Physician at Yale New Haven Hospital, has endorsed playing classical music to your baby. In his endorsement, Dr. Ravski states, “In-utero fetal acoustic stimulation has been shown to improve preg- ® nancy outcomes as well as benefi t the growing fetus.” The BébéSounds Prenatal Gift Set enables you to direct our specially selected classical music th
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relations begins to develop; and heart begins to beat more strongly. Second Trimester: The head develops more actively than the rest of the body; eyes respond to light; key organs mature; fetus reacts to music and loud noise; arms and legs are moving strongly enough so you can feel them; fetus can hear and the ability to learn signifi cantly increases; signs of memory and the ability to respond to various stimuli are apparent; and music has a calming effect while harsh sounds have an agitat
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As the cells get larger, the axons grow longer and the dendrites become an increasingly complex system of multiple connections like branches of a tree. The more stimulation the cells receive, the more complex these dendrites become, resulting in a more developed brain. The number of brain cells your baby is born with helps determine her potential, but it is also the number of connections between these cells that determines her fi nal intelligence. Helping to increase the number of connectio
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interesting is that the unborn baby does not respond in this way to many 4 single notes even if they are played very loud and very close to her. Yet another study showed that unborn babies who had classical music played to them from the middle of the fi fth month until they were born, for ten minutes twice a day, developed more quickly, began to talk up to six months earlier, and had greater intellectual development than those babies who had not had classical music played to them inside 5 t
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR PLAYING MUSIC TO YOUR UNBORN BABY (YOU WILL NEED YOUR OWN CD PLAYER) The best time to play music is once in the morning and once in the evening, for a period of 5 to 10 minutes, around the same time each day. Be careful not to play the music too long or too frequently as your unborn baby also needs to rest. However, you will probably fi nd that your baby will be very active and obviously awake during the evening. Do not play the same music over and over again. It is believed
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where you feel her kicking most frequently. You may tuck the speakers into your clothing or use the Maternity Belt to hold them in place. 4. Play the music for approximately 10 minutes at a time and alternate the selections you play. Use the schedule included in this booklet as a record of what selections you have played and how frequently you played them. 5. Play the music just a little louder than you would normally play it for yourself. If it is much too loud for you, it will be too loud
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PLAYING MUSIC TO YOUR NEWBORN BABY The stimulation of your baby can continue after birth to help enhance development. Our postnatal CD contains special selections of music from a variety of classical composers. They are longer in duration than the prenatal CD because as your baby gets older she will be able to focus for longer periods of time. INSTRUCTIONS FOR TALKING, SINGING, & READING TO YOUR UNBORN BABY (See Fig. 13) 1. Connect the cable from the Fetal Speakers to the Fetal Microphone.
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fi g.13 maternity belt fetal speakers fetal microphone FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS Q: What type of music should I play? A: The universal opinion seems to be that classical music is the best, particularly music by Mozart. That is why we have enclosed a 60-minute CD of specially selected music by Mozart. Q: Do I have to use the Maternity Belt when playing the music? A: Yes. For maximum benefi t, the Fetal Speakers must be kept in a stationary position toward the bottom of your stomach as your baby
