The Pregnant Reader, The Intelligent Baby Workshop - Read Ghana Foundation.

Reading is the key to learning. Reading, we are committed to tackling from its core.

This has necessitated the need to organize this first ever upcoming workshop for all Pregnant Women within Ho Municipality and then replicating it in other districts in Ghana when resources are available because, we strongly believe in tackling reading from the womb point of view thus during Pregnancy is the way to go.

This is because, research findings and several studies have proven that, in the later stages of pregnancy thus from second trimester thus after 25 weeks of pregnancy, unborn babies are very much aware of the vibrations that voices have and can recognize them with ease.

So when pregnant women inculcate the culture of reading to their unborn babies, they can start bonding with them as early as possible.

It is a fact that, in our part of the world and the world at large, throughout pregnancy, pregnant women surely want to do things that can help their babies grow and develop well as expected.

So you will realize that, pregnant women will definitely take good care of themselves so that, their unborn babies gets all the required nutrition in order to avoid the risks of any defects or problems.

But the question is, how many of our Ghanaian pregnant women ever considered reading to their unborn babies? In the outside world, many women know that, reading to their unborn babies can be of great benefits but with our Ghanaian pregnant women the story is different.

Our pregnant women should understand that, reading to unborn babies will make them start bonding with the unborn babies.

Once he or she is born, he or she will instantly recognize your voice. Hearing your voice will stimulate an interest in sounds and helps he or she to develop listening skills.

Let us look at it from this analogy. It is just like how you can hear your neighbours.

Unborn babies can also recognize soft music and loud music.

Soft music and soothing tones can help them relax. If you want your baby to rest, you can play soft music or talk in a soothing tone.

Your baby will hear it and relax in your womb. ln the same way, you can talk to your baby so that he or she recognizes your voice when you reading.

In the development of the brain, when the fetus hears the same sound over and over, it begins to respond to it. The response time also gets smaller and your fetus will respond very quickly after a while.

This shows that even unborn babies have the ability to learn.

So therefore, it is very important for all our Pregnant Women to read aloud to their unborn babies to ensure that, he or she's brain develops well and he or she starts learning even before he or she is born.

Reading books aloud will help develop the recognition skills and learning skills of the of unborn baby.

If pregnant women do this every day at least an hour, their babies will recognize their voice soon enough and when he or she is born, he or she will feel much safer in their arms than he or she normally would because your voice will be familiar to the babies.

Husbands are not left out of this, they can also read aloud to their unborn babies so that, he or she recognizes their voices as well,parent-baby bonding, reduction of maternal stress, listening skills development by the child’s familiarization with letter sounds etc.

Reading we should all understand, provides auditory stimulation for babies’ growing brains.

The tones, voices and sounds that the baby hears during development will provide the foundation for learning new sounds and words after he or she is born.

After delivery, the baby is more likely to respond positively to the people to whom she or he “listened” to during development.

Reading to unborn babies promotes language development, attention development, concentration skills and information synthesis.

A baby’s cognitive skills can also be improved with a variety of stimuli; reading represents one way to enhance these important developmental skills.

This very important workshop will be used to educate pregnant women on issues regarding reading aloud to their unborn babies,how they should all do well to buy picture books down for their unborn babies,how parents must equipped their babies with the foundational literacy skills before they start school,plans on helping those parents who cannot read be able to read and books will be donated to them etc.

It is scheduled for 1st May,2018 at Elorm Parish,Ho Bankoe at 10am sharp.

We thank Global FM 105.1, and V1 TV the main sponsors,Hon Benjamin Kpodo MP for Ho Central who also agreed to support the program and Kekeli FM 102.9 for agreeing to help in the publicity in order to make the program a success.

We expect all pregnant women to come out in great numbers in order to benefit from this very important workshop. It is free for all of them. Tell a friend to tell a friend!

Signed
Mathias Tulasi
CEO - Read Ghana Foundation