Book Review- Womb Prints: Discover Life’s First Impressions

Book Review : Womb Prints, by Barbara Findeisen, explores how the environment experienced in utero can not only affect the fetus and its infancy but also has the capability of affecting them the rest of their life. Throughout the book, Findeisen delves into many different situations and environments that occur in pregnancy. She begins with stories about individuals who were surrounded by love in utero. She then discusses environments that were extremely stressful for the mother. This stress is not just experienced by the mother, it is experienced by the fetus as well. The stressful environments that are described range from physiologic complications, abuse to the mother, lack of love for the child, and even situations where the mother does not want to carry the child.