When Pralhad’s mother was pregnant with him, she used to listen to devotional songs. Therefore, even though Pralhad took birth in a Rakshasa family, he became a devotee of Lord Vishnu.
The story of Abhimanyu is well known in the Mahabharata. Abhimanyu, the son of Arjuna, learned how to enter the Chakravyuha (the strategic arrangement of warriors to entrap and defeat the enemy) when he was in his mother’s womb. He had heard and remembered the narration of the technique by Krishna to Subhadra during her pregnancy. certain specific rituals. Before the birth of Buddha, his mother, Mahamaya had followed In the month of Ashadha, she celebrated the seven-day festival and gave alms to the poor. She did penance by giving up some of her pleasures. After the festival, Mahamaya had a dream in which, Bodhisatva, by the name of Sumedh, asked permission to take birth in her womb. She happily consented. Later, a brilliant son was born to her in the pleasant environments of Lumbini. He became Lord Buddha.
Before Krishna was born, his mother, Devaki had a dream that Lord Vishnu had entered her body.
The mother of the freedom fighter, Veer Savarkar used to read the courageous stories from the Ramayana and Maharana Pratap to her son when he was in her womb.
Rishi Udalak was a great saint. He had an able disciple called Kahod. The Rishi gave his daughter, Sujata in marriage to Kahod. Once when Sujata was pregnant, Kahod was reciting some shlokas.
The baby in the womb realized the recitation was incorrect and asked him to correct it. Kahod was livid with rage. He put a curse on his son so that he would be born bent in eight places. The child, Ashtavakra was born bent in eight places. The father’s angry thoughts affected the baby.
When tabla maestro, Zakir Hussain was in his mother’s womb, his father, Ustad Allah Rakha used to beat lightly with his fingers on his mother’s abdomen.
Sister Lorna Zemke has found that the fetus will respond rhythmically to rhythms tapped on the mother’s belly.
As the mother is the first guru of the fetus, mother’s influence on the fetus is paramount. Mother’s self-concept – preferably positive- helps fetus to learn better in the womb. The fetus’s social environment base is its mother! Educating the fetus rightly begins with a healthy (in all respect) motherhood Sing or hum softly to your fetus; the sounds provide an introduction to rhythm and tone that will be important to later language development.
Avoid highly stressful situations which can expose your fetus to hormone levels that block pre-natal learning. Finally, pursue your own learning activities, whatever they are. While the fetus will not learn directly from these experiences, your own mental attitude will be a kind of comfort and security to her that will provide her with the basis for a positive attitude toward learning after she is born
The mothers have taken recourse to this spiritual way so that child with healthy mind, soul and body is born To authenticate this Jaspal kaur a computer professional at model town and recently blessed with a baby girl said “my mother asked me to recite gurbani, shabad, shlok to give god sanskars to the baby “Sharing the same views Kanta said “when my daughter- in-law was pregnant I listen to good things as what the mother listens is grasped by the child it can grasp the negative tones so I asked her to go to the kirtans recite or listen to ramayan as the baby can listen to it and keep postive thoughts of the child, the parents will be able to reduce tension in their lives.
When talked to Dr vineeta munjal gynecologist at Guru Tegh Bahadur hospital said” it is true she says” The six weeks roughly 40 days after fertilization the embryo is developed [from zygote-sperm and ovary to embryo then another six weeks it develops into fetus after which for about same period it develops into recognizable human form. Science has also verified that fetus can think There is a ultrasound evidence that about 23 weeks 161 days the fetus dreams dreaming is an indication of presence of mental capabilities required for thought [the thinking fetus] there are numerous things that fetus can do in this period expressing emotions [happiness fear disgust etc] through its facial expressions. It can show anxiety through the sucking of thumb, asserts itself and protest through kicking and it develops memory adds she the child is effected by outside environment. A child is disturbed by high pitched music.
She says that medically exposure to frequency sounds leads to increased foetal activities which leads to increased uterine irritability and pre – term labor pains. The same thing happens when mother takes spicy food that causes gastrointestinal disturbances. She informed The incidence of babies having distress in mothers womb is on the rise probably due to hectic lifestyles of the mothers and stress of the outside environment . A word of advice from the doc is that a would be mother should check on food intake which causes gastric disturbances and do light yoga postures as regular exercise can help them in easy delivery. The atmosphere around should be peaceful “
So great lessons are learnt before stepping in the outside world Educating in the womb.