Around age 2 or 2-1/2 is a good time to ask a child about their birth. They're still close to it and are starting to get verbal. It helps to do it in that golden hour of the subconscious, either right before falling asleep or right after waking up. Kind of neat to hear how they respond.
I had one friend who's child said they heard, "Whoosh. Whoosh. Whoosh." (Presumably the sound of the heartbeat in utero.)
When I asked Ezra at that age, he said something about a tunnel (and didn't elaborate much beyond that).
Kind of a neat thing to do.
The Noah Wyle narrated movie, What Babies Want, has an interview with a birth psychologist who talks about a young girl she was working with who re-created her birth scene (a c-section, the psychologist had the toy-like props available) down to the last detail of where everybody was in the room, what was happening, etc.
Birth is important and babies feel things and our souls remember things and I just love all that stuff.
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Sofia got interested in her own birth story around age 2.5/3, and I told her the story (I had a c-section) and she interjected her own little memories. It was fascinating. I told her the doctor cut my tummy open and pulled her out, and she said, "And the lights were bright and all the monsters were looking at me!" Surgical masks certainly do make for strange looking people!
I just love that you wrote about this! I asked Mia about her birth when she was 2 1/2 and we had quite an elaborate discussion about it. I wrote it all down and it has been fascinating to go back and read from time to time. I would love for more people to know that babies remember birth and how talking about their memories can help heal birth trauma. Babies are people, too, and they are so much more capable than we know.
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