As soon as it becomes clear to people around that the woman is pregnant, her world cardinally changes. People perceive the pregnant woman as a miracle - and hands by itself reach for her stomach.
The attitude of ancient society towards the pregnant woman or from where desire to touch a stomach undertakes?
The pregnant woman represented something special at all times. The great mystery of origin of life always concerned, and a stomach – an embodiment of this secret. It is no secret that the quality of course of pregnancy affects health of the child. Healthy mother and posterity is a condition of survival of the people. In some cultures including in Russia, was considered that in not been born child the spirit of the ancestor who was tried to be cajoled is installed. People believed that they after death of soul come back in bodies of descendants – grandchildren and great-grandsons. Not to do much harm to itself and not to cause anger of gods of a sort, the pregnant woman was in every possible way preserved and cared for her. Desire to touch a stomach is just connected by unconscious desire to save the arisen life and to touch the great mystery of reproduction. In some cultures consider that the touch to a stomach of the pregnant woman brings good luck.
Today there is a sign that if the woman cannot conceive, it is necessary to be taken for a stomach of the pregnant woman or to enjoy from her glass. However it is not pleasant to many pregnant women when strangers without the permission touch her stomach. In some states of the USA it is legislatively forbidden to touch a stomach of the pregnant woman without her consent.
Why you should not touch the pregnant woman's stomach?
There is nothing bad that the stomach is touched by the father, grandmothers or the immediate family. In psychology there is a concept of a comfortable distance. Close people communicate at distance less than 50 cm, for friends and colleagues optimum distance - 50-120 cm. For unfamiliar people the comfortable distance makes up to 3 m. Therefore if you, without being a member of a close circle of contacts, approach the pregnant woman closer than distance in half-meter and the more so, you touch the rounded tummy, it can cause psychological discomfort and irritation. In parapsychology it is considered that hands are an energy output of a biofield. Power impact of the stranger on the kid can be negative, it is unknown that for the person and with what thoughts touches the child's dwelling. If you do not plan to get own children so far, too it is worth refraining from touch to a stomach of the pregnant woman. To pregnant women, if they do not want them to touch a stomach, it is possible to give advice: put both hands on a stomach and turn away. It will let know to people around that you should not touch you.