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“If you want to have healthy children before you ever conceive a child, live a healthy life, because one of the things we haven't had a chance to talk about was genetics. And so, the ova and the sperm that the future parents will contribute to the making of this child will be influenced by the kind of life that those parents live. So, live a healthy life, like don’t smoke, for example, before you conceive a child. And the same thing by the way, with alcohol. And then once you get pregnant, remember that you are carrying a tiny little human being. This is a human being, tiny, yes, but still human. And so, you need to treat it with respect and love, and everything else will follow.”As we have learned, extraordinary development occurs within the womb before children are born, and children report having pre-birth memories. Dr. Stephanie Dueger, a psychologist specializing in prenatal and perinatal psychology, has shared the memories that her child reported about being in the uterus. “So, for example, our firstborn, I had a lot of nausea during that pregnancy, and so I would eat a lot of mint, including things like mint chocolate chip ice cream which wasn’t the best choice, but it tasted good, and afterwards I stopped eating, the nausea was gone, once it was gone. And this was obviously in the first trimester. And she was about a year and three quarters, and we were out in the garden, and we had mint growing in the garden. And she said, you know in her one-and-a-half-year-old voice, ‘you used to eat a lot of mint chocolate chip ice-cream when I was in your tummy.’ And I was like, how did she know that? She’s like, ‘I loved mint chocolate ice cream.’ She loved the taste of it. And we had never even given her ice cream. She’d never had ice cream; we didn’t eat a lot of mint in our house. She had that taste of the mint from the garden, and it brought her back.” Dr. Verny marvels at the intelligence and wonder of our bodily cells. “Let’s take a look at the extraordinary cellular development and milestones that take place during the pre-born child’s life. At fertilization, her gender, ethnicity, hair color, eye color, and countless traits are already determined. At three weeks and 1 day, just 22 days after fertilization, Olivia’s heartbeat can be detected. The buds of her arms and legs appear by four weeks. She begins to move between five and six weeks with both spontaneous and reflexive movements. At six weeks from fertilization, her brain activity can be recorded, and bone formation begins. She can bring her hands together at seven and a half weeks. And separate fingers and toes emerge. She can also begin to hiccup. At the beginning of the ninth week, Olivia will have grown from a single cell into nearly 1 billion cells, and she is now called a fetus. She will suck her thumb and swallow, grasp an object, touch her face, sigh, and stretch. At 11 weeks, she is playing in the womb, moving her body and exploring her environment. Her taste bud cells have matured by week 12, but are still scattered throughout her mouth. Beginning at 18 weeks, ultrasounds show speaking movements in her voice box. Around 20 weeks, with a lot of help, babies have survived outside the womb. At 27 weeks, her eyes are responding to light. She can recognize her parents’ voices and will even recognize lullabies and stories.”“So I think it’s very important that when your baby is moving around and you know that the baby is awake, that you speak nicely, lovingly, affectionately to the baby, and you tell the baby how much you love her or him, and to have both you and your partner, husband, father of the child talk to the baby.”
