RESOURCES
You will find here relevant books, articles, videos and other resources to help you dive in the world of prenatal life and prenatal parenting.
BOOKS
Ioanna Mari, founder and president of the Hellenic
Association for Prenatal Education
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“In the womb, the baby receives physical, psychological and spiritual information that contributes – as much as the genetic material received at conception – to the formation of the human being he or she is becoming.”
François Amigues, Laura Uplinger
and Susana
Lopes
Forming Healthy, Happy And Thriving Human Beings
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“Pregnancy is a most crucial stage of parenting, however a neglected one for the last several millennia. And prior to conceiving a child, it is vastly empowering to explore the fecund universe of prenatal parenting and its impact on humanity.”
Akira Ikegawa M.D. D.M
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“As you listen to these prenatal memories, you might get an insight into what the special purpose is that your child was born to accomplish. If so, you may find yourself naturally experiencing feelings of thankfulness, such as “Thank you for choosing us over all the other couples,” and “Thank you for coming here to help us grow.” ”
Peter W. Nathanielsz, MD, PhD
“Adults may eventually suffer diseases of the heart, liver, pancreas and kidneys because those organs were incompletely formed during vulnerable periods of development in the womb.”
David Chamberlain
“When I look at the burst of activity found at the eightweek milestone, I sense a new dimension of excitement and choice. Fetal behavior is more personal than mechanical.”
Marcy Axness, PhD
“The most scientifically proven prenatal education program consists of a mother’s perceptions of the world, as taught to her baby through her thoughts, feelings, words and behavior.”
Thomas R. Verny, MD, and Pamela Weintraub
“Pre-Parenting explains how even the most ordinary events can evoke a cascade of biological changes in a baby—not only in the brain but also in the immune system and throughout the body.”
Bruce H. Lipton and Steve Bhaerman
Political philosopher Steve Bhaerman and cell biologist Bruce Lipton invite us into the realm of epigenetics and the newly found role of the cell membrane: it informs the cell nucleus about what genes to silence or activate!
Elizabeth Carman & Neil Carman
“Unborn children appear to display psychic talents that they use like radar to scan their mothers and learn more about them. They are sensitive to subtle emotional nuances, vulnerable to physical trauma, and responsive to communications.”
Robin Karr-Morse
“If, through sensual perceptions or chemical messages, the fetal or newborn brain chronically detects that the world is aggressive and hostile or that survival depends on vigilance, his or her very plastic brain will shape itself accordingly [...] to prepare to survive such a world.”
Dr. Akira Ikegawa
"The world is filled with beauty. Children want to know how to express this- they want to know how it works and how to communicate this excitement tothose around them. I think these ‘feelings of happiness’ are the driving force”
Elisabeth Hallett
"Stories of pre-birth communication show unborn souls taking an active role in every step of their journey to the world. There are couples who suspect their future child even had a hand in bringing them together.”
Wendy Anne McCarty
“Prenatal and perinatal psychology findings suggest we are conscious sentient beings from the beginning of life and that we exist as sentient being prior to physical life and are functioning as such from the beginning of human existence.”
Marshall H. Klaus & Phyllis Klaus
“This book begins with images of fetuses actually comforting themselves in the womb. We then see newborns less than one hour old crawling unassisted to the breast, recognizing the voices of their parents, shutting our unwanted sights and imitating faces.”
Gajanan Kelkar
“... consciousness exists in a zygote - which is even as minuscule as a grain of sugar.”
David Chamberlain, PhD
“Babies welcomed at conception, prepared for during pregnancy, and gently birthed into loving hands begin life positively. They look out at the world with immense interest and curiosity, act as if they feel safe, and make a solid connection with their parents.”
Susan Highsmith
“The chamber door is preparing to open. It glows with the vermillion aura that only this portal can display. It is only through this gate that the journey can begin.”
Susan Highsmith
“The music - the energy and vibration of the Universe - surges through this Divine Instrument. A Heart! The seat of Love has taken form in this new Being.”
Wayne W. Dyer and Dee Garnes
“Countless stories about children reporting how they remember choosing their parents for this journey, having invisible friends that only they could see, memories of past lives in the same family, visitations with God, and on and on.”
Frédérick Leboyer
“The first book to express what mothers have always known: babies are born complete human beings with the ability to experience a full range of emotions.”
Thomas Verny, MD, PhD
“This book is principally about the shaping of the human mind, about how we become who we are. And it is based on the discovery that the unborn child is a feeling, a remembering, aware being.”
Frédérick Leboyer
This book shows how to use the flowing rhythms of the art of baby massage to communicate love and strength to infants in the weeks and months following birth.
Gajanan Shridhar Kelkar
“In an improved perspective about Conception, what must be taken into consideration is twofold: The mother and the father are the ones providing the seed, and the soul or spiritual power of the child wishes to be born.”
Ankita Sapan Marjadi
“It's indeed a beauty of nature that the power of these talks have a beautiful impact on the baby in the womb... All you have to do is read aloud what is written in for that week and you are good to go!" ”
Michael Gabriel
“The knowledge gained through the prenatal recall process will, I believe, inevitably leave society to a new and loftier view of caring, growing and birthing a child.”
Andrea Alban and Lisa Burnett Bossi
Elisabeth Hallett
“For some parents-to-be, an inner voice announces the coming conception or even engages them in conversation. There are mysterious meetings in dreams and waking visions.”
Dr. Akira Ikegawa
" I was always dancing in your tummy. Oh, I wish I could get back into mommy's tummy. -Daiki Suzuki / 3 yrs old
Dr. Akira Ikegawa
"Yesterday, I went up to the sky, and I saw a smiling baby there, so I put it into mommy's tummy. - Yuhta Endo/ 3 yrs old
Dietrich Bauer, Max Hoffmeister, Hartmut Goerg
“The authors have collected stories from young children, their parents, friends and those in the medical profession who have something to tell - in children it is from direct memory, and parents (mostly mothers) have had either sleeping or waking dreams about their unborn child.”
Susana Lopes
"The human mother is also a manifestation of Universal Mother Nature, and yoga in pregnancy helps women to reconnect with the vital processes of the planet, which regulate, protect and sustain life."
Amali Lokugamage
“This book celebrates the unappreciated skill of Mother Nature through normal birth to create social cohesion and to remedy the fragmented and destructive society.”
Michel Odent
“Our health is to a great extent shaped during the ‘primal period,’ which includes foetal life, the period surrounding birth and the year following birth.”
Michel Odent
“By becoming more scientific, obstetrics is discovering its own limitations and is evaluating the power of the environment in the period surrounding birth.”
Michel Oden
“Farming and childbirth have been industrialized side by side during the twentieth century – with dramatic and disturbing circumstances. ”
Sunni Karl
“A sacred birth is truly for one purpose: to birth a child in a way that can best preserve the essence of divinity that accompanies each new being.”
Jaroslav Vlcek
“In prenatal life, we exist more in the role of observers, passively receiving - yet consciously participating - in the process of growth . In trying to understand prenatal life, we are entering the invisible realm of existence, the beginning of life.”
Laura Huxley
“In prenatal life, we exist more in the role of observers, passively receiving - yet consciously participating - in the process of growth . In trying to understand prenatal life, we are entering the invisible realm of existence, the beginning of life.”
Sheila Kitzinger
"In the last 40 years the subject of birth has become a political issue, and one that affects us all. The right to knowledge about our bodies and minds in childbirth is a fundamental human freedom."
Nitika Sobti
“This book is about the connection that you establish with your baby before birth. [...] The idea is to let all expecting parents weave a golden channel of communication with their baby.”
SPIRITUALITY
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
“The woman, the mother, has received the mission to regenerate humanity, as Nature gave her the power of influencing the child in her womb.”
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
“The time to give the child a real education and upbringing is before birth.”
Elizabeth Carman & Neil Carman
"Children share memories of choosing parents and their journey to Earth from a dimension of light and love. Sensitive mothers share communications with a future child seeking birth."
Terra Rafael
“Our constitution is created by three main influences: the environment at conception (especially the condition of the parents); the prenatal environment; and spiritual influences.”
TRAUMA
Sheila Kitzinger
“Women in childbirth are treated like products on a factory conveyor belt. They suffer from institutionalized violence and it is like to affect the way they feel not only about themselves but also about their baby and their partner.”
Elizabeth Noble
An exploration of the long term impact of prenatal and birth experiences: how primal therapy, hypnosis, visualization, and body work aid in gaining access to one's deepest, earliest memories. These experiences may explain chronic conditions resistant to traditional treatments.
Ludwig Janus
A journey through the many ways in which our prenatal and birth experiences may continue to affect our lives.
Benig Mauger
“Mauger places birth and life in the womb as a formative soul experience creating patterns we carry with us into later life.”
Jane Butterfield English
“Although Different Doorway will be of primary interest to caesareans, its significance is much more basic. Experiential work on prenatal and perinatal issues seems to lead to a new type of human being.” Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D.
REFERENCE
Editors: Jon RG Turner, Troya GN Turner, Olga
Gouni
“Prenatal & perinatal psychology is approximately 100 years of age. Since then, due to the works of Pioneers in the field, what was once a hidden mystery is now common knowledge: Prenatal Life Matters!”
Joel M. Evans
"What des it mean for an obstetrician to practice holistic medicine? It means that I look to the women I work with, my patients, to be active participants in their care."
Ann Diamond Weinstein
“It is imperative we consider how human experience during this period impacts the development, health, behavior, and relationships of individuals over their life span.”
Arthur Janov
The New Primal Scream discusses and reaches some startling conclusions about illness and Primal Therapy.
Arthur Janov
Birth imprints can later shape personality and physiology. They can determine how long we will live and what inflictions we will suffer later in life.
Elisabeth Rochat de la Vallée
This work examines classical Chinese medical literature to present the various transformations for mother and developing child during pregnancy.
Debra Betts
“…the use of acupuncture in pregnancy care and childbirth appears to be limited only by the reluctance of acupuncture practitioners to become involved in this specialist area. I hope that this book will go some way towards overcoming this, strengthening practitioners’ sense of confidence and expanding the range of treatments offered to women throughout pregnancy and childbirth.”
ARTICLES
Annie Murphy Paul
for TIME MAGAZINE - Health - Sep 22, 2010
Henry P. David
First published: Fall 1992
Michel Odent
"Primal Health Research" is a database of published scientific and medical journals that explore correlations between the 'primal period' (fetal life, perinatal period and year following birth) and health and personality traits later on in life.