ABSTRACT
It can certainly be claimed that there is no exact knowledge about the effect of the birth process on the infant that is being born. It is even difficult to prove that there is any effect at all. Many would argue that there can be no effect since the infant is not yet there as a human being to be affected. The point of view that I am putting forward here is that, at full term, there is already a human being in the womb, one that is capable of having experiences and of accumulating body memories and even of organising defensive measures to deal with traumata (such as the interruption of continuity of being by reaction to the impingements from the environment in so far as it fails to adapt).
