An Unseen Bonding-Relationship Between The Mother And The Unborn Child

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Motherhood is the most desired aspect of womanhood. Almost every woman craves for that special moment where she is looking forward to release her motherly love to her baby and yearns for the child's tender, immaculate love in return in its own way. It is a bonding that commences with the umbilical cord and embalmed in the years that follow.

Motherhood does not commence with the birth of the baby. It begins as early as when a couple decide to add a new facet to their relationship with a little newcomer. She gives wings to her imaginations about her little one, bearing the impressions of her beloved and her. When a woman learns that she is an expectant mother, she decides to provide at most comfort and care needed for the child even while at womb. An ideal diet tops the agenda. She prepares herself to eat her way out for the two of them. Dishes that she dislikes but now needed for the child's growth easily gets its way down her throat. Each and every move is now centered on her baby.

As motherhood advances to the second stage, the child develops the ability to listen. In Hindu mythology we have the story of Abimanyu who listens to the method of entering the impenetrable Charkavyuha (a circular grid like defense arrangement) within his mother's (Shubadhra) womb when Krishna talks of it. Later when he gets into the chrakravyuha during the war when he is a lad his enemies kill him, as he is not aware of the way to exit from it. This is because he does not get to listen to the end bit of the story as Shubadhra falls asleep when the story is narrated.

Psychologists instruct mothers to communicate to the baby in the womb. There are a lot of cases where in a baby responding to the familiarity of music that it has accustomed to listening during its stay in the womb. Similarly they are able to identify a mantra or a story repeated by the mother before its birth.. It is been said that such practices enhance the concentration and listening skills of the child. Even from the beginning of the baby's life, it is accustomed to listening to the heartbeat of the mother, her voice and is rocked about as and she walks. The child takes comfort in the heartbeat of the mother. There are even certain prenatal education programs for the parents that connect the child to the unseen world outside through the mother resonating with nature, earth, water, family, loved ones etc.

A mother's thoughts also play a vital role in a child's character, nature and disposition. The child is lucky if the thoughts and feelings of the mother are positive. Positive thoughts of the mother unravel themselves as intelligence, talent, confidence and adjustability in the child later. Negative thoughts in turn have negative effects.

Hence Motherhood is just not a happening. It is in fact a pleasant journey; a journey from the womb that stretches over...