My mother related to me that while I was still in her womb, my father used to talk to me as if I was already a person of my own right. He would update me on things like, "Daddy is back home. How are you? I love you." Those were crucial moments for me. I believe it helped to build the very strong bond I have with my parents today.

I remember my mother telling me that she wanted to give birth to me in the evening when my father was around. I recall her saying that the reason is because she needed my father to support her. True enough, intuitively, I waited for my father to return home and it was only then that my mother started to have labour pains. This was my prenatal experience.

My experience with my children also proved that a connection with your child can actually begin even before the child is born. When I was expecting my first child, I sang a particular nursery rhyme and talked to my son as often as I could. Interestingly, after he was born he remembered the nursery rhyme that I had sung for him while he was in my womb. I could sense and observe that he always felt comfortable, secure and a feeling of warmth whenever he listened to it. It was the major link that helped me to make a deep connection with him. The familiarity made the bonding easier to establish.

While I was pregnant with my second child, I encountered a lot of challenges as I was experiencing the possibility of losing the child. The doctor had informed me that I had a low placenta and I even suffered gestational diabetes. This was when I began to attend the prenatal training course which used the Right Brain Training approach conducted by my teacher, May Ng, who not only guided me with her knowledge and skills, but constantly supported and reassured me with her heart. The training I received helped me greatly in facing, and in the end, overcoming all the challenges from a very positive approach. I became calm to face whatever challenges during my pregnancy. My unborn baby became more relaxed.

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