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When prenatal spiritual experiences are dismissed medically

I'm pregnant and keep having dreams about a baby that doesn't look like me or my husband, like an old soul choosing our family, but my doctor says it's just pregnancy hormones.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Indigenous understanding of pregnancy as spiritual communication conflicts with Western biomedical frameworks.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous spiritualities — North America?”

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