1. You can certainly help your baby’s natural cognitive development by interacting with the foetus, and this includes singing and talking. By reading stories, playing music, or even just talking to your baby, you can let her experience a simple form of learning in the womb, according to a number of studies.
  2. Foetuses carry forward their samskaras from previous lives. Samskaras are impressions or imprints formed from previous life experiences. These impressions are often thought of as seeds planted in our subconscious minds, waiting until we need them to grow into our conscious thoughts and behaviours.
  3. Vedas have tried to purify samskaras from the womb. As we cannot change the past but how we respond in the present moments change our samskaras. They started educating the foetus how to respond in any circumstances with 16 Milestones of a Magnificent life. This insight brings them stability, calmness, and inner peace. It is in the form of celebration. Their Relevance from the Past to the Present.
    1. Garbhadhana: Ceremony of conception – is performed after the couple is united in holy matrimony. It is the first known rite of a human and begins before conception.
    2. Pumsavana: Protect the parents from suffering – a celebration/ritual conducted in or after the third month of pregnancy and ceremony celebrates the rite of passage of the developing foetus.
    3. Simantonnayana: Parting the hair – Celebration performed in the seventh month of pregnancy to receive blessings for the health and long life of the mother and the child in the womb.
    4. Jatakarma: Birth rites – Celebration of this moment is breast feeding. It is the death of the foetus and the birth of an infant.
    5. Namakarana: Ceremony for naming the child – The Namakarana ceremony to give an identity to the newborn.
    6. Nishkramana: First outing for showing the sun – Forty days after the baby’s birth, parents take the baby to a nearby temple.
    7. Annaprasana: First feeding in 6 months – Ceremony is performed in the sixth month. The first time a baby eats solid food, Panchamrut.
    8. Chudakarana: Arrangement of the hair tuft – this ceremony is for Discipline and Dedication.
    9. Karnavedha: Piercing the ear lobes – Ceremony of Piercing ears to help in developing intelligence, listening and enhancing immunity.
    10. Upanayana: Holy thread ceremony – Celebrating Janeu ceremony which is made of three cotton threads to remind you to destroy me, mine and not mine.
    11. Vidyarambha: Learning the Alphabet – Celebrated by whispering in the ear of student Aham Brahmasmi, to start the child’s formal venture to learn the means of knowledge, to develop intellect.
    12. Vedarambha: First study of the Vedas – Celebration to sharpened intelligence by the initiation of the Vedic study.
    13. Samavartana: Graduation ceremony – After education of alphabet and Vedic study the student is now ready to move on to the next stage of life.
    14. Vivaha: Marriage – Getting married with seven vows and starting own family, Gṛhastha Samskar.
    15. Vanaprastha and Sannyasa – Celebrating with self-study and meeting with the Universe before death.
    16. Antyeshti: Funeral – Death of the body is celebrated for thirteen days with different rituals.
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