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Learning Before Birth: Every Child Deserves Giftedness, Brent Logan, Authorhouse Publishing, Bloomington, 2003. The first repository of complete information about an ancient parenting practice now technologized as a developmental enhancement, scientific discipline, commercial industry, evolutionary dynamic, and quantum cultural advance. From theory to application, the entire field is examined in detail, discussing its history, central ideas, clinical trials, global results, and implications--for individuals as well as society.
RATING: 5 Stars

Prenatal Classroom: A Parent's Guide for Teaching Your Baby in the Womb, Rene Van de Carr and Marc Lehrer, Humanics, Atlanta, 1992 (revised paperback 1997, retitled While You Are Expecting: Your Own Prenatal Classroom). In 1979, California obstetrician Rene Van de Carr developed a technique for fetal stimulation employing abdominal manipulations paired with verbal commands; after a decade offering classes for parents, he and psychologist Marc Lehrer transcribed these instructions as a book promotive of family bonding.
RATING: 4 Stars

How To Have a Smarter Baby, Susan Ludington-Hoe and Susan K. Golant, Rawson, New York, 1985 (paperback 1987, Bantam, New York). This usually helpful work begins to correlate brain research with early learning, specifically infant development, while briefly recommending sonic stimulation before birth. Formerly, a Professor of Maternity/Child Health with the University of California at Los Angeles, Susan Ludington-Hoe also invented a wide range of black-and-white postnatal products, and is considered the driving force behind infant stimulation. The volume remains one of very few worthwhile aids for parents confronted with a welter of postbirth products and practices claiming educational value.
RATING: 3½ Stars

Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence, Marian Diamond and Janet Hopson, Dutton, New York, 1998. A repackaging for parents of Marian Diamond's 1988 Enriching Heredity, with extensive resource listings. Although recommending prenatal stimulation, she--and the cited advice of other researchers--surprisingly overlooks the high sonic volume from omnipresent intrauterine noise which is obviously not injurious to the fetus, therefore suggesting approaches too brief to imprint.
RATING: 3½ Stars

Enriching Heredity: The Impact of the Environment on the Anatomy of the Brain, Marian Cleeves Diamond, Free Press, New York, 1988. For thirty years, University of California at Berkeley Professor of Neuroanatomy Marian Diamond has stimulated or deprived rodents, tracking their behavior and examining how such influence alters the brain's physical structure. Among her experiments she shows that rat pups exposed to various interventions prenatally perform much better at maze testing.
RATING: 3½ Stars

Caring for Your Unborn Child, Roy Ridgway, Thorsons, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, UK, 1990 (paperback 1991, Harper & Row, San Francisco). A readable blend of popular psychology and pregnancy tips is contained in this generally practical handbook which devotes one chapter to prenatal learning, discussing Brent Logan's contribution at some length.
RATING: 3½ Stars

The Expectant Father, Armin A. Brott and Jennifer Ash, Abbeville, New York, 1995. Containing well-intended though rather obvious points about a frequently ignored aspect of parenthood, this pragmatic treatment notes Brent Logan's technology.
RATING: 3½ Stars

The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, Thomas Verny and John Kelly, Summit, New York, 1981 (paperback 1982, Dell, New York). Mostly anecdotal, absent much theoretical basis or empirical evidence, at least this volume draws attention to the prenatal period's importance upon later health and behavior. Despite support for the outcomes from fetal enrichment--and later editorial inclusion of Brent Logan's published studies--Toronto psychiatrist Thomas Verny maintains an anti-technology perspective which makes difficult any thorough understanding of such rationale or function.
RATING: 3 Stars

Babies Remember Birth, David B. Chamberlain, Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1988. Like Thomas Verny's book, this remains a collection of prenatal and perinatal anecdotes though adding some quantitative findings; with a concentration upon maternal-child bonding, his approach draws more upon subjective judgement than it admits, an ongoing problem for the "soft" sciences.
RATING: 3 Stars

Brighter Baby, Brenda Adderly and Jay Gordon, Lifeline Press, Washington D.C., 1999. A superficial treatment of prenatal and infant stimulation products, failing to identify music and spoken material as ineffective. The BabyPlus fetal enrichment system is noted.
RATING: 2½ Stars

Requiem para Batman: Biografia Provisional de un Nifo Prodigio, Manuel Alonso, Federico Domenech, Valencia, 1990. An often self-serving Spanish account of a child prodigy--"the new Mozart," performing in public concerts and privately before Europe's royalty--by his father, which describes instrumental stimulation practiced by the mother prebirth; one chapter reports Brent Logan's provision of a conceptual basis for the phenomenon, along with recalling his assistance in acquiring an American scholarship for this virtuoso. The boy's parents market several musical audiocassettes which they believe promote fetal advantage, but this assertion has not been verified by independent comparative trials.
RATING: 2 Stars

Nurturing the Unborn Child, Thomas Verny and Pamela Weintraub, Delacorte, New York, 1991 (paperback 1992, Delta, New York). A month-by-month gestational guide that presumes mental communication with the fetus; this dubious direction reinforces the speculative precedents expressed in Thomas Verny's The Secret Life of the Unborn Child. As Senior Editor at Omni magazine, Pamela Weintaub first gave national exposure to Brent Logan's research in an August 1989 cover article entitled "Preschool?".
RATING: 2 Stars

The American Way of Birth, Jessica Mitford, Dutton, New York, 1992. As spirited as her 1963 The American Way of Death, this is a mainly accurate indictment of the United States medical establishment; although erroneously referencing Brent Logan's innovation, these inaccuracies were corrected in a 1993 BBC Television production of the same name, which includes an interview with him.
RATING: 2 Stars