Prenatal Quotes

“When you create a soul, plant the seeds of love with your thoughts, words, and actions . The soul flourishes among the flow-ers of love.”
― Revathi Sankaran

“According to their adoptive parents, children who are prenatally exposed to drugs appear to function very much like other adopted children on educational attainment and emotional or behavioral adjustment.”
― Richard p. Barth, Madelyn Freundlich, and David Brodzinsky

“A review in the Journal of the American Medical Association of thirty-six studies that looked at the physical growth, cognition, language and motor skills, behavior, attention, affect, and neurophysiology found no connection between prenatal exposure to cocaine and a decrease in functioning.”
― Cris Beam

“My first memory did not begin with anything of this world.
It began with a special kind of water.
Warm, boundless, soft, silent in the way only sacred things can be silent. It held me without asking for anything in return. There was no time there, no hunger, no distance, no question. Only the deep and living certainty that I was held, and that being held was enough.”
― Mihail Sol, Iris and the Ocean of Remembering: Before the First Breath

“My next memory is of joy – a joy so complete it has no edges, no beginning, no place where it ends and something else begins. The moment a part of my consciousness slipped into the cup of my mother, into the deep ocean of her love. The moment I was sheltered by a womb.”
― Mihail Sol

“had lived before. I knew this the way I knew to float: without thinking, without needing anyone to explain it to me. The knowledge was simply there, woven into whatever I was before I became this.”
― Mihail Sol, Iris and the Ocean of Remembering: Before the First Breath