Babies Remember Birth and Other Extraordinary Scientific Discoveries About the Mind and Personality of Your Newborn

by Ph. D. David Chamberlain

Book by David Chamberlain, Ph. D.

211 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1988

Reviews

[Ekaterina · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read the second half of the book with the stories of grown up babies. This is the most fascinating part of the book. All babies describe womb as a safe place, then when contraction start they don't like it. They become uncomfortable, it is causing them pain. There is a tiny opening with a little bit of light and they realize they need to go there. Some of the babies are terrified, because they don't know how they would fit through such a tiny space. It is very important what happens right after the birth. Since it is an old book, it describes stories of births that happened with mothers in a very technogenic hospital environment. Back in the days babies were not put on mothers chest right away and moreover they were carried away from the mother to a nursery. All the babies are describing how lonely they felt being alone, where no one really cares. Medical personnel only does their job duty. They connect in their head that when they cry somebody will come to be with them. Feeling of hunger is a new feeling and they don't connect it right away with the mothers milk, but rather on the third or fourth time they discover the connection. Also they are very sensitive. All they want to do is be loved. When love does not happen they feel like they want to die. They feel that they are only bringing trouble in this world. A lot of times an inaccurate comment made by a doctor , nurse, parents or relatives cause deep pain in a newborn. This pain stays with them forever and is a cause for a psychological and then physical pain. It is a cause fora fatal illness in an adult, who does not realize that the root of his unsettlement lies in a forgotten birth experience. There is a story of a mother who said to a doctor why he didn't wrap an umbilical cord around the babies neck and suffocated the baby. That baby said I hated my mother from the minute I was born. In another story baby is describing how relatives made fun on him, because of the way he looked like a frog and his ears were sticking out. Another baby is telling a story when he came home for the first time his sisters came to him and told him that he was pink and had wrinkles and that he broke the way things were before him, and that they don't want him at the house. That baby felt unwelcome in his home. When babies are blamed for something, they accept that they cause something bad, pain, and they want to be gone so they don't cause that pain anymore. I would recommend this book to parents who want to understand and treat their child as he is one of them, and not an attribute. Those babies communicate with their eyes. They all are born with the consciousness of an adult, but cannot speak it to the parents. They all want their parents to stop treating them like they are creatures that don't understand,think or evaluate. Then after their parents would not stop treating them like a "child who does not know any better", the baby and then the child has to accept this role, because it is the role society wants them to play and there is no way around it. The baby is not a blank page when they are born, but rather they have preserved a memory of where they came from. It is very important to treat a baby like one of us. Loved this book and recommend it to anyone who is passionate about babies and childbirth.

[Hanie kashani · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was amazing

[Rae · Rating 5 out of 5]

As an infant shoe adoptee... Might as well drop kick my heart across the room but I appreciate that this research exists. 💕♥️💔 It sure makes sense to me.

[April Bell · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really hope someone publishes a new edition of this book with updated research

[Stephanie · Rating 1 out of 5]

There's nothing in this book that I didn't already know or believe to be true but I wasn't impressed with the delivery.