The Secret Life of the-Unborn Child.pdfVIP

The following are taken from “The Secret Life of the Unborn Child” One group of investigators believes something like consciousness exists from the very first moments of conception. As evidence, they point to the thousands of perfectly healthy women who repeatedly abort simultaneously. There is speculation that in the very first weeks - perhaps even hours – after conception, the fertilized ovum possesses enough self-awareness to sense rejection and enough will to act on it. Pg. 19 Dr. Michael Lieberman showed that an unborn child grows emotionally agitated (as measured by the quickening of his heartbeat)each time his mother thinks of having a cigarette. She doesn’t even have to put it to her lips or light a match; just the idea of having a cigarette is enough to upset him. Naturally, the fetus has no way of knowing his mother is smoking – or thinking about it – but he is intellectually sophisticated enough to associate the experience of her smoking with the unpleasant sensation if produced in him. This is caused by the drop in his oxygen supply (smoking lowers the oxygen content of the maternal blood passing the placenta), which is physiologically harmful to him, but possibly even more harmful are the psychological effects of maternal smoking. Pg. 21 …few things are more dangerous to a child, emotionally and physically, than a father who abuses or neglects his pregnant wife. Virtually everyone who has studies the expectant father’s role – and, sadly, so far, only a handful of researches have – has found that his support is absolutely essential to her and, thus, to her child’s well-being. That fact alone makes the man an important part of the prenatal equation. An equally vital factor in the child’s emotional well-being is his father’s commitment to the marriage. Pg. 30 In short, then while the external stresses a woman faces matter, what matters most is the way she feels about her unborn child. Her thought