The interaction between mother and child during pregnancy has not only biological but also psychological, spiritual, and social aspects. The prenatal phase of human life is the most important and the most decisive for a person's entire life in psychological and physiological terms. It is the time period which bears the highest risk for the child's development as it is affected by prenatal stress experienced by the mother during pregnancy. Attachments between the mother and child, later affecting the entire life of an individual, are formed already during the prenatal period. This contribution describes possibilities for healing traumatic experiences that the child brings from the prenatal period. This healing aspect of the prenatal period proceeds through the attachment that a human being has formed with God based on his/her experience with attachment to the primary carer. Trauma caused by the mother, father, or other people during the prenatal phase of fetal development is healed through prayer, when the child returns to the respective time to live through the moments of trauma again, this time filled with love, joy, and self-adoption through Jesus Christ. This goal is studied based on authentic testimonies of witnesses who experienced healing, through prayer, of their own traumas suffered during prenatal fetal development.

St Elizabeth College of Health and Social Work Bratislava Slovak Republic

Conference proceedings, Freybergh's days, 23-24 May 2014

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