Pregnancy often brings old feelings and memories to the surface. Becoming a parent makes you see your own parents differently — sometimes with love and empathy, sometimes with confusion or pain. It’s as if pregnancy reopens the part of your story that began with being cared for.

As you carry a child, your body remembers things your mind may have forgotten. You might feel a sudden closeness to your mother, or a deep distance. Both are natural. The brain’s attachment and protection systems awaken — the same ones formed in early childhood — which is why old emotions can feel so vivid now.

This is a time when many people reconsider their inheritance: What do I want to pass on? What do I want to change? That reflection can hurt, but it can also heal. Understanding where you come from helps you create safety for where you’re going.

Alma’s advice:

• Allow every feeling — love and frustration can live side by side.

• Write down what you want to carry forward as a parent.

• When old wounds surface, see them as messages to understand, not to judge.

Becoming a parent begins a circle — you’re not just healing the past, you’re strengthening the future.