All societies have created and evolvingly continue to create stereotypic arch-types of The Mother and Motherhood. In most societies, feminine and Mother are combined to form a single representation of WOMAN—and for most women in the world this still is their only self-representation. Motherhood is a state of being. Although the specifics are expressed idiosyncratically, primary preoccupation with the child, availability to the child, self-sacrifice for the child, are values upheld as inherent in good motherhood. The pregnant woman's feeling of changes within her body, and the inner spontaneous movements of the foetus, bring about psychic states of "inwardness" during which the "fantasy child" and her interrelationship with it is formed. Every woman wishes to be a good mother. Mothers remain mothers irrespective of the child's age. The "fantasy child" and their interactions with it continue within them as a psychic creation.