Taegyo

[citation needed] In 1800, the Korean female scholar Yi Sajudang (사주당 이씨; 師朱堂李氏) wrote a book on the subject entitled Taegyosingi (태교신기; 胎敎新記).

Proponents of taegyo claim that its ideas overlap with, but originated significantly earlier in time than the child development theories of the Western world.

According to Taegyo theory, as an embryo and fetus, this newly created person is strongly influenced by its emotional environment: the mindset of the pregnant woman.

Proponents of Taegyo point to studies showing the detrimental health effects of stress as supporting their belief that an environment of emotional calm is vitally important to the healthy formation of a child.

[3] While Taegyo places great importance on avoiding emotional turmoil in a pregnant woman, maintaining a calm mind is considered, in itself, not enough.

Sound Taegyo, which involves listening to good music, is done to developing the emotional sensitivity and the connection between the mother and child.

The belief is that children who were talked to in the mother's womb are faster language learners, more social, more athletic, and more emotionally sensitive.

According to Taegyo, at the time the fetus develops the ability to hear (during the fifth or sixth month of pregnancy), it also begins to feel the same emotions as the pregnant woman.

[citation needed] In addition to listening to music, Taegyo recommends that the pregnant woman and her husband sing or play instruments.

Yoga may also provide physical benefits to the pregnant woman, reducing the discomforts of pregnancy and easing childbirth and post-delivery recovery.