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My understanding always was that fetal awareness was largely independent of the mother. But that couldn't possibly be entirely true. At the least, a fetus' awareness is shaped by the level of activity of the mother. I don't think that there is any difference in the variety (alpha, beta, theta, delta) of brain waves; but I think I remember hearing something about the structure of sleep. The infant/fetus dreams differently apparently, but I don't know how.
I looked it up and came up with some pretty dry medical journal articles that cited increased 'fractal organization' in connection with rem. As far as I can see, that term stems from...chaos theory. Strange terminology in a medical journal.
Another thing I heard was that after birth, within the first months of life, no neurons are generated but as much as a third are extinguished. Neural development in that period stems largely from dendritic growth/the interrelation or branching of existing neurons.
At the time I read this, I thought this was incredibly interesting. That somehow consciousness as we know it initially stemmed from such a profound loss.
I've tried to find some article to verify this factoid on the internet, but haven't been able to. (sorry) I had come across it originally in a neuropsychiatry text somewhere. Yeah, just some stuff I like to read.
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