Near-birth experience

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A near-birth experience most commonly refers to a parental encounter which involves some form of intelligent communication with an offspring not yet born, either during the pregnancy or before conception. This experience may reveal the forthcoming child's gender, name, character or similar traits.[1]

Less commonly, the term near-birth experience can refer to one's own recollection of an event which occurred immediately after one's own birth, or during the pregnancy, or even also before conception. Under this usage, the term "near-birth experience" is analogous to the term "near-death experience."[2]

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Church, Dawson (1998). Communing With the Spirit of Your Unborn Child. Aslan Publishing. ISBN 0-9440-3115-3. 
  2. ^ Bongard, Gerald (2000). The Near-Birth Experience: A Journey to the Center of Self. Marlowe & Company. ISBN 1-5692-4602-5. 

[edit] Further Reading

Remembering Our Home, Healing Hurts & Receiving Gifts from Conception to Birth by Sheila Fabricant Linn, William Emerson, Dennis Linn, Matthew Linn, Paulist Press, ISBN 0-8091-3901-4