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We're continuing yesterday's post...

Consistent research demonstrates how important the attitude of parents is to develop the fetus once the child is conceived. The scientific evidence that has emerged over the past decade is asking us to re-evaluate the mental and emotional capacities of unborn children.

As studies show, these unborn children, whether awake or asleep, are "tuned" to every action, thought and feeling of their mother. From the moment of conception, the experiences in the womb form the brain and lay the foundations of personality, emotional temperament and superior thinking. But things don't stop there...

The father, through his ability to interact almost in all respects with the mother, her habits and beliefs, etc. seems to have at least an equal role in this process. In conclusion, without doubt, mothers and fathers participate together in problems related to conception and pregnancy, even if it is the mother who carries the child...

What the father does is deeply affecting the mother, which in turn affects the developing child. For example, if the father leaves the mother-to-be, she will begin to question her ability to survive, to "do well,", this abandonment profoundly altering the interaction between the mother and the unborn child. similarly, social factors such as the lack of a job, a home, medical care or endless wars with those around, can affect parents and, as a result, the child.

The essence of conscious child rearing is that both mothers and fathers have important responsibilities for the care of healthy, intelligent, productive and happy children. Of course we cannot blame ourselves or our parents for our failures or our children's failures.

Science has turned our attention to the notion of genetic determinism, leaving us in ignorance about the influence that beliefs have on our lives and, more importantly, how our behaviors and attitudes program the lives of the children we raise.

Most obstetricians are still uninformed about the importance of parental attitudes to the development of the fetus or baby. According to the notion of genetic determinism that they have been imbued with since they were medical students, the development of the fetus is controlled in a mechanical way by genes, with a small additional contribution from the mother.

Consequently, obstetricians and gynecologists are concerned only with a few prenatal subjects that concern the mother: whether she eats well, if she takes vitamins, if she exercises regularly, etc. These questions focus on what they think is the mother's primary role, that of storing nutrients that will be used by the genetically programmed fetus.

However, the developing child receives much more from the mother's blood than nutrients that will be used "by necessity" or "that's why they're there"... With these the fetus absorbs an excess of glucose, if the mother is diabetic, an excess of cortisone and other hormones fighting or running away, if the mother is continuously stressed.

Research now provides explanations of how things work. If a mother is stressed, she activates her hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which gives combat or escape responses in dangerous conditions (real or not, stress or not). Stress hormones prepare the body for engaging in a protective response and once maternal signals enter the fetus' blood, they affect the same tissues and target organs of the fetus as in the mother.

In stressful environments, fetal blood flows preferentially to the muscles, small brain, occipital cerebral lobe (responsible for life-saving reflex behavior), etc. (as described in previous posts), providing necessary nutrients to the arms, legs, etc. (with external placement and reaction function).

The development of tissues and organs of the fetus is proportional both to the amount of blood they receive and to the function it provides (and, in particular, in the case of demand - repeated tractions make the bicep high, repeated requests develop the organ at the expense of the others - here being concerned in particular viscera which by "non-use" of effort "deviated" will have a minimal development... you understand, don't you?) ...

So, when they pass the placenta, the hormones of a mother suffering from chronic stress will profoundly affect the way blood is distributed in the fetus and will change the characteristics of the child's physiology. For example, studies reveal that prenatal exposure to cortisone leads to hypertension (in the case of the child, of course, not the mother).

The level of cortisone in the fetus plays a very important role, that of regulating the development of filtration elements of the kidneys, nephrons. nephron cells are directly related to the regulation of the body's saline balance and are thus important for blood pressure control.

Excess cortisone absorbed from a stressed mother alters the formation of foetal nephrons. An additional effect of excess cortisone is that it causes the mother's and fetus's system to switch from growth to a protective posture. As a result, the effect of inhibiting the growth of excess cortisone in the uterus causes the baby to be born smaller.

Suboptimal conditions in the uterus that lead to low-weight babies have been linked to a number of adult diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, obesity... For example, medical studies have revealed a man who at birth weighed less than 2.5 kg (compared to the optimal average of 3.5 kg) is likely to die from a 50% larger heart disease than another who had a higher birth weight, diabetes is three times more common in men in their 60s who were small and weak at birth, and the list can continue.

It was then found that women who at birth weighed less than 2.5 kg had a 23% higher risk of cardiovascular disease than women who were born with a higher weight.

The new orientation on the influences of the prenatal environment extends to the study of the coefficient of intelligence, which the genetic rasists and determinists once correlated only with genes. In countless studies, it has been concluded that of the factors that determine the intelligence coefficient, genes are only 48% important. When the synergistic effects of combining the mother's and father's genes are factored, the actual inherited component of intelligence decreases to 34%.

These studies also reveal that up to 51% of the child's potential intelligence is controlled by environmental factors (and not only the factors of some studies, such as those about the influence of tobacco, alcohol, lead, etc. during pregnancy).

Thus, future parents need to be aware that a wrong approach to pregnancy can lead to a reduction in the child's intelligence. These changes in the intelligence coefficient are not accidents but they are directly related to changes that occur in a brain (stressed organism).

To better understand the above, I can describe one of the experiments... Mothers "in study" were projected films that "emane" different situations in their daily lives. Mothers were connected to a complex system of sampling the parameters of "immediate" evolution of the fetus from their tummy and thus monitored (with the help of the sonographer, etc.), in fact, what is perceived at its level...

At one point in the film, a mother engages in a heated argument with her husband. At that point, the sonogram clearly shows how the fetus is jerking with the start of the squabbles. The alarmed fetus arches its body and jumps up like a trampoline when the discussion is "dotted" by breaking a glass.

Thus, with the power of modern technology, in the form of a sonogram, we come to banish the myth that an unborn child is not a sophisticated enough organism to react to anything other than food.
Interesting, isn't it?

And for today I apologize, but I'm having a busy day than I expected, and I'm forced to stop here...

See tomorrow (finalizing the epic of the fetus)!!!

Dorin, Merticaru