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Once the spirit is in the mother, it is a very exciting time for both her and the person coming in. To begin with, the mother should try to be aware during the first twenty-one days when the spirit actually makes the decision to come into her body. Developing your spiritual force through meditation will help you make the contact and discover that a person is coming back into life. It is not being created from scratch, but has probably lived as many lives as you have and is now creating a new life. Be aware that it may be a family member from a long time past. You could study your family tree and see who passed away over a hundred years ago. If you can find pictures of your older relatives, you could meditate on their images and you may make some connections. Image how wonderful it would be to discover who the spirit was in previous lives and how they had lived. If you knew what kind of life they lived and how they died, you could create a special bond with them before they were born. Communication could begin with the new person letting you know what to name them. Names reflect the level of evolution and the path of learning we are on. Names have meaning in spiritual language and will present themselves to the mother if she is open to it. By realizing that babies are people creating new lives for themselves, we should no longer think of them as possessions that we have made, but as people coming into a new life. Life is a cooperative effort by the mother, the father, and the incoming person. The father provides his DNA along with the mother's to begin the formation of the material body. It begins with the spine as the body begins to form. During the eighth to the fifteenth week, the brain is forming and creating all of the connectors it will need for thinking. It is at this time that the spirit of the incoming person starts to take a hand in the formation of this new body. It is the spirit that provides the mapping or information to the DNA on how many brain