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