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The Emotional and Spiritual Sides of Birth

Too often American hospitals are insensitive to the emotional and spiritual aspects of bringing a new life into the world and tend only to the body, neglecting the heart and soul.

Hospital personnel may treat the baby as insensitive, unseeing and unfeeling. They are frequently unaware of what humanist psychologists and psychiatrists have known for years - that there is much evidence to support the belief that babies are sentient not only at birth, but even before.