A study from the Netherlands confirms what every mom already knows: babies in the womb have memories.
My mother told me how I (or was it my brother?) would calm at the sound of the opening theme from The Days of Our Lives. Then she figured it out: she would sit down and watch the show everyday, including during her final months of pregnancy. It was familiar, and therefore soothing.
I had similar stories for each of my kids, most amusingly with my youngest. During our son's final weeks in my ever-expanding belly, my husband and I sat down to watch the entire first season of The Office. I was relaxed and laughing happily during those viewings.
Months later, picking up his big sister from the airport, my little guy was crying inconsolably at the very start of an hour-long drive. Thinking quickly, my daughter pulled out her cell phone and played the ring-tones on it.
The one that calmed him down immediately? The folksy strains that are heard over the opening shots of the gang at Dunder-Mifflin, of course. We must have played it a hundred times. And it worked on many an airport trip after that -- and elsewhere -- whenever she came to visit.
It still makes him smile, to this day.
So NARAL has no comment -- of course not. But every mom already knows it. Our babies lives do not begin on the day they are born. Life begins in the most sacred place of all -- the sanctity of our wombs -- no matter what NARAL, NOW or our President says.
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