Healing Mother's Emotional Wounds with Prenatal Memory
Memories of Prenatal Life: Gateway into Our Consciousness.
Japanese Prenatal Memory researchers Introduced Consciousness of the Unborn Babies.
Dr. Akira Ikegawa has been touching many souls of parents, especially mothers, and changing the lives of people all around the world. The concept of Prenatal Memory has been researched for more than 20 years and is instrumental in solving many cases of difficult parenting situations such as a miscarriage, a child suffering an ailment, or being born with a physical handicap. Currently, this concept has been applied through different professions and practices throughout Japan.
This is a transcript created from the video titled, "Healing Mother's Emotional Wounds with Prenatal Memory".
Hello, everyone.
I'm Dr. Akira Ikegawa, an obstetrician-gynecologist.
Most Japanese gynecologists are treating childbirth in a small clinic setting and I've been dealing with childbirth for almost 30 years. There were a small number of childbirths per year at my clinic and I started out practicing what I had learned about childbirth at university.
But when a midwifery clinic has opened nearby which encourages a natural birth so we partnered and I have learned there are different ways to give birth than the average obstetric practice.
There were mothers having difficulty raising their children after birth or the mother was very happy when she gave birth but later found out the couple went through a divorce.
So I decided to be mindful of how to make the birth itself "happy" and I encouraged practices such as Kangaroo Care, Skin-to-Skin Contact, and family members attending childbirth, etc... Although I thought I've tried everything, it was still not easy to raise a child the number of difficulties were decreased but did not completely disappear.
That is when I came across Prenatal Memory and I heard that babies are having memories in the womb. I didn't know about it at first, so it wasn't about agreeing with its existence but rather I thought it was an interesting story and so I did some research on this topic.
My clinic is a small clinic and if there's any complication during birth, I had to transport a patient to a larger hospital so I wanted to reduce the number of abnormal births as much as possible. I couldn't find an effective practice but I was starting to mention that "A baby in a womb is listening to mom and dad" and soon the number of complicated births decreased quite a bit.
Also, I've had the experience that as the years have gone by there were fewer people who told me about difficulty with raising their children after birth. I thought maybe we can't change things during childbirth but we must work on building a method while pregnant would decrease the anxiety of parenting and postnatal care. I was thinking there is some potential in this concept therefore I started to actively talk to people about children having Prenatal Memory.
As a result, I began to ask mothers during their prenatal check-ups. In Japan, it is quite common for mothers to bring their children for checkups and it is normal for most medical facilities for children to be present at childbirth.
So, I did not refuse the presence of children at my clinic. And I started asking the mothers if their children had any memories prior to birth and a lot of people were saying, "Actually..." and talked about their children's memories.
As I gathered stories, I started to hear from some older siblings who seemed to have the ability to talk to the baby in the womb. Normally, this would be a bit unimaginable and most people would dismiss such a story, however, I had heard quite a lot of Prenatal Memory and I thought it was a very interesting phenomenon.
One day, I met a mother who experienced a miscarriage. The mother has had a difficult life and when I told her that she had a miscarriage and she said, "I'm the only one who suffers... why me?" and she went home in tears. When this mother left, her older boy said... well, this boy was born at my clinic, "A baby will come back during the time when Tulip blooms and this time she will come back as a girl." I heard from the same mother at her next check-up, and she smiled and told me about this story.
Although losing a baby is such a tragic event, if the phenomenon that children communicating with a baby makes the mother happy then I thought it would be a good idea to do some more research. I continued with it and found people who can communicate with a baby in a womb or there were quite a few people who said they could actually talk to miscarried babies.
I gathered stories and found out that apparently children without a physical body or even miscarried babies can contact their mothers by my research.
So I started telling those stories to many mothers and quite a few people who say they have miscarried or had an abortion mentioned that I've witnessed phenomena that eased painful memories for people who suffered, grievous memories turning into happiness.
There was a case of a mother who experienced miscarriage... I heard this from a government health nurse and she said mothers are always thinking about the miscarried child so even when they're lucky to conceive a baby, the mother overlay miscarried child and the mothers won't look at a child who was born and parenting becomes very difficult in the end.
Miscarriage requires to be resolved every time it occurs and that was what I have practiced at my clinic. For that reason, I sent a patient to have an emergency cesarean section at another hospital which happened very rarely but at a certain point, there was no emergency transportation for a few years.
Consequently, I realized that when mothers change their minds then it affects childbirth which I have learned from my actual experience and I'm actively promoting this concept.
One of the tools is to talk about children having their memories in the womb that is how I started promoting Prenatal Memory.
About the Author
Yuko is a Prenatal Memory Navigator, English/Japanese Trans-Creator, and an International Coordinator aiming to be a global Social Entrepreneur. She is an international Coordinator for the Prenatal Memory Education Association and has launched the Prenatal Memory Global Project in 2018 with top leading researchers, Dr. Akira Ikegawa and Dr. Masayuki Ohkado. She believes prenatal memory is the foundation of Trans-Universal Heutagogy which is the greatest global education and self-learning method to teach unconditional love, sustainable living, and how to build a peaceful future for our children.