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Babies Learn Emotions In The Womb

4 Feb 2026 · 0 min

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A newborn refused to nurse from her biological mother but accepted milk from another woman. When asked why, the mother admitted she never wanted the child. The speaker uses this story to argue that babies form emotional identity and consciousness in the womb.

This baby would not take her mother's breast when she was born. They bring her to another mother, and the baby drinks that milk. The doctor comes to her and says, wait a minute. What's going on? And the mother finally admitted, well, I didn't want her. I only had her because my husband wanted her, and I really want nothing to do with it. Oh, my gosh. So the baby knew that there's scientific evidence about how consciousness at the level of identity is often imprinted in the womb.