Your Unborn Baby Senses Your Mental State
- At the same time you’re feeling your baby, your baby is feeling you.
- Fetuses can sense their mom’s state of mind — depressed, anxious, or happy, for instance.
- The information babies’ brains collect from their mothers helps them grow and develop.
- When a mother is happy, her baby receives all those feel-good “happy” signals that helps fuel future growth and development.
- When a mom-to-be is consistently anxious or clinically depressed, the baby is overloaded with not-so-happy signals that could hamper development, and in severe cases, lead to psychological or developmental delays down the road.
- A pregnant woman’s thoughts have a physical connection to her unborn child.
- Children born to mothers who had intensely stressful pregnancies are more likely to have behavioral problems later in life.
- Positive maternal emotions have been shown to advance the health of the unborn child.
- Without stress, your baby’s nervous system works smoothly. When you’re calm and centered, your baby is able to grow peacefully.
1 year ago on December 29, 2011 at 02:09pm

