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BASICS 7 – ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON THE CHILD IN THE WOMB!

   


Environment is everything which is external to the child.
 
It could be things outside the mother. That will obviously include, father, grandparents, relatives and friends.

Sunshine, rain, air, rivers, earth and the like are also part of the environment. Clean water and pure air are good! Hence it is easy to surmise that good and clean environment is a better influence for the child.

Chemicals, hormones, enzymes are inputs coming to the child from the mother. There are also external to the child and hence part of environment. They may be good or bad – because cortisol and adrenalin seem to be created during anxiety or fear. Oxytocin is produced when there is love and appreciation!

The environmental influences are carried to the child from the mother through the physical channel or placenta/umbilical cord. But they can also reach through non-physical means. Recall, the analogy of FM Channels, mobile phones and TV.

In the course of our lives we are exposed to mobile waves, radiations from video/photo cameras, X Ray / MRI / CT scans and many other such gadgets. Magnetism and Gravity are certainly known influences. These are subtle energies which are capable of reaching the child. All these constitute environmental influences.

The environment hence an important role in the pregnancy period.

A Story from II World War

   


Here is a real life story that happened during the Second World War.
During the war in late 1944, Germany placed parts of Holland under a severe food embargo. This resulted in a widespread famine in the areas.  The famine affected the whole population.

Medical records of this period were researched many years later. The records of the men whose mothers were pregnant and carrying them in the womb during the famine were examined in detail. 

The study of the group of men, who were now grown up adults, showed that they all had somethings in common – obesity and predisposition to heart diseases!

Did the environment of the period have anything to do with it ?

Researchers observed that the environment had created severe stress and anxiety in the pregnant mothers. That was the prominent cause of the current tendencies and predispositions which the men were prone to and observed years later. 

BASICS 6 - ROLE OF THE FATHER

   


There is no physical connection of the child with any other person including the father or grandparents. So what role can the father play ? Father, for sure, participates in the process of conception.

Once pregnant, the mother carries the embryo and foetus in the womb. She connects with the child physically, through the umbilical cord and placenta. It is well known that the mother is the channel for physical movement of food/ nutrients and waste disposal for the child.

HERE IS AN IMPORTANT POINT - The Child in the womb is capable of connecting through physical and non-physical means. In our lives, we may not be able to touch and feel the non-physical means, but they do have a process and cause an action or reaction. For eg.- We cannot see or touch the waves and frequencies which connect and operate through a mobile phone – but we all know that they enable us to talk with another person(s) in remote locations! So is it with TV viewing or FM radio channels.

Carrying forward the example of FM radio, we know that the FM channels picked up first are the ones which powerfully transmit signals. Less powerful or weaker channels are more difficult to pick up. In the same manner, those who connect powerfully with the Child can communicate and interact with it. The Father, has played the role through conception – contributing 23   chromosomes which form the basic information network to create the child. The mother has contributed another 23. They are equal partners.

Even though there is no physical connection of the foetus with the father, there is connection through strong energy currents, carried as waves and frequencies. Hence throughout the 9 months of pregnancy and thereafter, father continues to play an important role – in the total development of the child in the womb ! It is a link which is causal and unbroken. Energy from the father forms a foundation for the child.

Is it possible for the influences of father to be more powerful than the mother for the child in the womb?

BASICS 5 – MOTHER AS TELEVISION

   


The primary channel or conduit for educating a child in the womb is the Mother. But - how do operations happen through the mother, how does she become the channel?

Mother plays a key role forging other connections for the child in the womb. That is through her Mind!

Mother’s mind act like a virtual TV screen on which captured images and impressions are played. The Foetus/Child in the womb, accesses the Mind of the mother continuously. It is just as if the baby is lying down on the bed and watching what is happening on TV ! All images played on that TV – be it news, serials, movies, reality shows or sports – are within the viewing and experience range of the child.

Hence, the child gets the imprints of what is happening in the mother while she watches a Cricket match or Saas-Bahu serial! Any experience and thought of the mother which may be captured on the screen – be it laughter, horror, tears or wonder – get relayed to the child in the womb.  It is continuous and direct.

Just imagine what is being conveyed to a child through our lifestyles including gadgets – TV, Mobiles, Laptops and all other devices and means. It is for this reason that ancient cultures always emphasised that a pregnant mother should remain happy, cheerful and peaceful so that such images could be picked up by the child in the womb! Very often, cultural practices are laden with a deeper meaning, which may not be obvious. 

Couples/Parents who are enrolled for the Omnio Prenatal Course will recall that we have advised moderation and discretion to be practiced by the pregnant mother. The rest of the family should support the efforts of the mother.

Mother plays another important role – she becomes the conduit or a channel that others can also access! Hence, apart from the mother, the child also links up with everything external – be it the family, relatives, society, environment and all!

This may look like an indirect channel, but everything has a role and purpose!