Antenatal

Fascinating facts about your growing baby:

Hearing is the first sense that your baby develops. By 20 weeks gestation your baby is getting familiar with your voice.

As your partner touches your growing belly and talks to your baby the connections in your baby’s brain are being activated.

Baby is also in tune with your emotions from 38 weeks. Research has shown that when mothers are calmed by their favourite music, this calming experience is transferred to baby and they too associate calmness with this piece of music.

To grow your baby’s brain you need to look after yourself and choose healthy food. 

Did you Know?

1. Breastfeeding
   Did you know breastfeeding provides your baby with good cholesterol, crucial for brain growth and development?
   
2. Alcohol
   Did you know that alcohol destroys a baby’s brain cells? Your baby is born with 100 billion brain cells, this does not increase.
   
3. Smoking
   Did you know that smoking constricts the blood vessels to the placenta, causing low birth weight and possible developmental delay?

Information you may find useful

• Preparing New Dads for the Birth
• Sleep and Settling

Parent Workshops you might find useful

• Building Brains
• You and Your New Baby
• Skilled Dads 

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