| Preface | p. xi |
| Windows to the Womb: The First Generation to See and Know | |
| Embryology | p. 3 |
| Intrauterine Photography | p. 5 |
| Ultrasound | p. 6 |
| Sensitive Instruments of Measurement | p. 7 |
| New Ways of Communicating with Prenates | p. 9 |
| The Flowering of Consciousness Research | p. 10 |
| The Wonder of Conception | |
| Speculations | p. 13 |
| The Inner Life of Cells | p. 14 |
| The Wild Romance | p. 16 |
| The Receptive Ovum | p. 19 |
| The Triumph of Conception | p. 22 |
| Expanding and Locating | p. 23 |
| Body Under Construction: The Ultimate Architecture | |
| Heart First | p. 26 |
| Starting on the Brain | p. 27 |
| Fetal Growth Speeds Forward | p. 29 |
| Embodiment Continues Apace | p. 33 |
| Last Touches | p. 36 |
| Motion and Emotion: Prenatal Body Language | |
| Self-Initiated, Voluntary Movements | p. 39 |
| Reactive and Defensive Motion | p. 43 |
| Interactive, Social Movement | p. 49 |
| Recalculating the Senses: Twelve, Not Five | |
| Diverse Early Senses | p. 58 |
| The Tactile Sense in Passive and Active Modes | p. 58 |
| Thermal Sensors | p. 59 |
| Pain Channels Are Ubiquitous | p. 60 |
| Hearing and Listening | p. 63 |
| The Sense of Balance, the Vestibular System | p. 66 |
| The Chemical Senses | p. 67 |
| Taste, the Gustatory Sense | p. 67 |
| Smell, the Olfactory Sense | p. 68 |
| Mouthing | p. 69 |
| Mouthing to Explore Objects | p. 69 |
| Sucking and Licking for Pleasure | p. 69 |
| Paradoxes of Vision | p. 70 |
| Precocious Early Vision | p. 70 |
| Higher Senses | p. 71 |
| Psychic Sensing | |
| Transcendent Sensing | p. 71 |
| A Summary of the Twelve Prenatal Senses | p. 73 |
| The Intelligent Prenate | |
| Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences | p. 77 |
| Linguistic Intelligence | p. 78 |
| Musical Intelligence | p. 80 |
| Logical-Mathematical Intelligence | p. 81 |
| Spatial Intelligence | p. 83 |
| Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence | p. 84 |
| Personal Intelligences: Intrapersonal | p. 86 |
| Personal Intelligence: Interpersonal | p. 88 |
| Learning, Learning, and Learning in the Womb | |
| Sample Findings from Experimental Research | p. 95 |
| Learning as Conditioning | p. 96 |
| Learning from Music Experiments | p. 97 |
| Learning from Experiments with Voices | p. 98 |
| Habituation Learning Studies | p. 99 |
| Experimental Exposure to a Movie | p. 100 |
| A Longitudinal Team-Research Study in Three European Countries: Tracking the Learning Experiences of Wanted and Unwanted Babies | p. 101 |
| Learning Language in the Womb | p. 105 |
| Prenatal Awareness: A Mother/Offspring-Pair Study Using Hypnosis to Investigate Prenatal Awareness of Maternal Emotional States during Pregnancy | p. 107 |
| A Few Examples of Learning Reports from Individuals | p. 111 |
| Realities of Consciousness in the Womb | |
| A Peek at the Whole Garden | p. 119 |
| Letter from Japan | p. 119 |
| Claire Bats the Needle during Amniocentesis | p. 121 |
| Iris Remembers an Abortion Attempt | p. 122 |
| Graham Uncovers an Abortion Attempt by His Mother | p. 123 |
| Loretta Is Clairvoyant from Inside the Womb | p. 123 |
| Loretta Also Remembers Mother's First Touch, First Words, and Naming | p. 124 |
| Kim Tunes In to Daily Life | p. 125 |
| How Patsy Learned to Fear Her Father | p. 125 |
| In Pregnancy Harriett's Mother Is Having an Appendicitis Attack! | p. 126 |
| In the Womb: Empathic Awareness of Mother, Father, and Brother | p. 128 |
| Examples of How Babies See Themselves | p. 129 |
| Clinical Work Reveals Consciousness in Crisis | p. 131 |
| Jeanette's Complex Challenges in Early Gestation | p. 132 |
| Bob Had His Own Challenge with a Vanishing Twin: A Brief Summary | p. 135 |
| Feldmar's Four Suicidal Clients: A Discovery | p. 136 |
| Letter from Germany: Franziska Remembers Her Vanishing Twin in Dreams | p. 137 |
| Therapist Explains How Shirley's Life Was Darkly Shadowed by Vanishing Twin | p. 138 |
| Charlene Had a Mysterious Phobia of Water | p. 139 |
| Marty Was Happily Pregnant but Obsessed That the Baby Would Die | p. 140 |
| Sharon's Lifelong Fears Trace Back to a Previous Lifetime | p. 141 |
| Norman Confuses a Past-Life Death with Life in the Amniotic Sea | p. 144 |
| Julie Appears, Makes Quick Deal with Former Mom, Penny | p. 144 |
| Conception and Before: Consciousness Before Brain | |
| Recalling Conception or Shortly Thereafter | p. 147 |
| A Haunting Memory of In Vitro Fertilization | p. 147 |
| Therapist's Report: Terry at Age Six Displays Vivid, Verified Memories of His Conception | p. 147 |
| Ida at Her Conception: A Delay in Taking Up Residence | p. 149 |
| Ellisa: Root of Lifelong Guilt Traces Back to Her Conception | p. 150 |
| Katie Gets the Message: "You Are Pregnant!" | p. 151 |
| Mary Checks In Soon after Conception | p. 151 |
| Lillian, Disappointed, Compares Where She Came From and Came To | p. 152 |
| Della Survives at Least a Half Dozen Abortion Efforts | p. 153 |
| Jeannine Found Herself at Home in Strange Territory | p. 155 |
| Carrie Has Always Remembered That Landing in Acapulco | p. 156 |
| Yashi Recalls Conceiving, and Daughter Kelley Speaks Out in a Dream | p. 157 |
| Consciousness before Brain | p. 158 |
| Paula Faces Urgent Questions from Timothy in a Vivid Dream | p. 159 |
| "Mommy, I'm Coming!": Theresa Shares Her Life-Changing Experience | p. 160 |
| Cheryl Heard an Unfamiliar Voice at the End of the Bed | p. 161 |
| Susana Receives a Preconception Visit from Third Son | p. 163 |
| Dialogue, Miscarriage, and Rebirth: Baby Tells All at Age Three: The Revealing Case of Susan as Told by Physician Gladys McGarey | p. 163 |
| I Have Your Name on Me: New Parents Get a Sweet Deal Made in Heaven | p. 166 |
| Ames (Not in Body) Successfully Recruits Both Mother and Father | p. 167 |
| Hannah (Not in Body) Comes Calling Way before Conception | p. 168 |
| Jill Heard a Girl's Voice Repeatedly Saying "Mommy, I Am Ready." | p. 169 |
| Slight Difference of Opinion about Who Picked Whom | p. 170 |
| Mother and Daughter Dorothy, Age Four, Have a Revealing Talk over Lunch | p. 171 |
| Afterword | p. 172 |
| No-Wait Bonding: Simple and Wonderful | p. 179 |
| Ensoulment: A Multicultural Synopsis | p. 186 |
| "Infantile Amnesia" Is Dead | p. 194 |
| Notes | p. 196 |
| Topical Bibliography | p. 209 |
| Index | p. 217 |
| About the Author | p. 226 |
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