Remembering Your Life Before Birth: How Your Womb Memories Have Shaped Your Life - And How to Heal Them Paperback – January 1, 1995

I read several books by Ian Stevenson and also some books on near death experiences, so I wasn't shocked at all by these people's recollections of going in and out of their bodies before birth, getting ready to be incarnated, etc.All in all, it's a really nice way to look at life - that perhaps we come here to have certain experiences (good or bad), to balance ourselves out, to learn things, to contribute, etc. Makes me feel differently about suffering; maybe it's for a good reason, and also maybe we get another shot at life if we have more to learn. Really seems to correspond to how life feels - it feels like learning.I was already aware that birth trauma probably played a big part in my life, since I'd have recollections of crushing and basically being born amid induced labor. But this book helped me to capture more of what might have impacted me, and I plan to ask my mom more about how she felt when she was pregnant with me and if I can, find someone to do prenatal regression.It simply makes sense that the emotions one feels as a baby, when one is basically trapped in the mom's emotions and even more dependent on her than at any other time in life, would have a large impact on one's psychology.One thing that struck me that seems like it would help the world so much is simply to leave babies with their moms right after birth! So many people in this book complained about being separated from their moms after birth; that they had expected it would be more comforting and they'd get to be around her, but then they were handled "like a piece of meat" and taken away from her. It's an instance of a cycle of abuse, where that's what happened to most of us and we keep doing it to the next generation (similarly to circumcision). After going through something fairly traumatic and intense, of course babies want to be with their moms (in most cases - there were a few babies who said they wanted to be in an incubator to get a break and some solitude).Great book. Read it if you are going to have kids.Made me more relaxed about life in general since it seems that, although small, small traumas can have a lifelong effect, things seem to happen for a reason (even these prenatal traumas).

Much like Michael Newton, the hypnotherapist who's work led him to write "Journey of Souls", Michael Gabriel has written a similar book using the stories and data from many individuals he has regressed to a period before birth. Where Newton's book focuses on the time between lives, Gabriel's book focuses on the time in the womb and seem very careful not to stray too far into the land of reincarnation. This book is great for showing how aware the fetus is inside the womb. The end of the book has a great section on dealing with pre-birth issues and techniques for parents to communicate with their unborn child.