What feeds and empowers the attachment is the love which develops between mother and unborn child. She discovered that as the attachment grows between mother and unborn child, so the fear of the unknown, that is greatest with the first birth, diminishes. Rosalie worked with ten first-time mothers using such techniques as focusing to discover deep levels of awareness within the body through intuitive means, keeping a journal, interviewing, art and music. The women were well educated, middle-class and married, and were experiencing a minimal amount of internal, family and social conflicts due to their pregnancies. She comments that their impressively clear verbal descriptions and artistic expressions provided a rich introduction to how pregnant women may experience relating to their unborn child.
Pregnancy is the ultimate intimacy possible between human beings.
Pregnancy may be a vehicle meant to awaken love within women and bring more love into the world. Some of the women Rosalie studied found their bodies picking up their unborn babies' feelings. And then I realize that I am not the one having the feeling. The first time Gail experienced it was during a thunderstorm. Where we live is on top of a hill, very open.