“What is extremely interesting in your post is that the emotional state of the pregnant mother significantly impacts the psychological and mental development of her unborn child.”
Far more than people realize, and in many different ways.
I can tell if the mother was angry at the father, or if the father was not present during the pregnancy due to military service or other influences.
I’ve worked with many lesbians, and at least 50 % of them the mother was angry at the father during pregnancy to the point that when I touch the memory in the now adult child it knocks them off their feet.
I refer to these transfers of emotion as “Intergenerational Transfers of Trauma.” Anxiety of the mother is often transferred and does not manifest until the daughter is pregnant herself. I’ve observed this in three generations of Mother/Daughter transfers in one family.
Another big one is if the father wants a boy and the child in the womb is a girl. The child in the womb knows that and senses the rejection.
Every situation is unique to the facts and circumstances of the specific situation.
I’ve done a fair amount of work with teenagers who were foreign adoptions as babies. The parental rejection at adoption begins to really manifest during the teen years, usually in negative behavioral problems.
Unlike therapists who need to talk about the unresolved issues, I just take hold of the emotional trauma and assist the person to remove it in a few minutes, usually through prayer and forgiveness.
“heavy bombing raids of WWII”
I have worked with older women in England and Germany who experienced these events as young children. Many of the men feared that their wives would get killed working in the factories during the war so they kept them pregnant and at home. The trauma was rough on the children and carried through their entire life.