The Child and Adolescent Development

The birth does not mean the initiation of life. Before birth it took about 40 weeks for the development of future self.
Initiated and fetal stage, the nervous system has already signs of organization’s heartbeat start and first appears spontaneous and induced movements.
Research has allowed us a precise knowledge of the processes of embryonic and fetal physiological development. But little is known about the psychological functions prenatal. Here we enter the realm of hypothesis. According to some psychologists, there is no reason not to accept as probable the existence of a fetus in the early stages, elementary, vague, unconscious or preconscious psychic nature.
The fetus is not a purely vegetative being, one only has spontaneous movements, but an organism capable of adapting and acquiring reflexes in the last period of prenatal life acquire remarkable precision.
In these emerging psychic elements prenatal play an important role not only genetic factors but also flow derived from nutritional benefits received from the mother's body.