Pregnancy lasts nine months. A single umbilical cord joins two hearts, two worlds in one, where something wonderful happens but, in turn, unknown: believe it or not, our emotions can cross the placenta’s protective barrier to caress our children.
It is curious to know how during pregnancy families care about buying the crib, clothes, making sure the mother has a good diet, but what is going through stress?, according to many scientists, we tend to neglect the emotional world of the mother. affecting the development of the fetus.
- Pregnancy is a mystery and it is hope: it is about loving someone whose face we do not yet know.
- It is to imagine their smile and the color of their hair as we caress their figure through the skin of their mother.
- Already transmitting our sincere affection.
Vivette Glover is a specialist in perinatal psychobiology at Imperial College London, England, and a pioneer in what is precisely known as the “emotional education of the womb”, a dimension of great interest and transcendence that we want to share with you.
Until recently it was thought that the emotional world of the mother did not affect the development of the fetus, this is a mistake: works such as those published in the journal explain that this intrauterine magic envelope is very receptive to emotions, especially during the fourth month period.
The media, society and the family itself often excel the beauty of pregnancy, however, in reality, we rarely talk about the importance of being able to connect physically and emotionally with the baby, so emotions influence its development.
Vivette Glover hem, together with Gestalt therapy specialists, stresses the importance of taking more care of the mother: ultrasounds and blood tests are not enough, you have to take care of her emotional state.
Children’s emotional education does not begin when they reach the world, but in the womb.
You don’t know your child yet, but you already see the world differently and you’ve made your weaknesses your strengths, it’s worth considering that his education begins at this stage, with the baby still in the womb.
Therefore, in order to apply adequate emotional education during these nine months of pregnancy, it is important that each mother and father take into account these important aspects: