Citations:prenate

Noun: "an unborn offspring at any stage of gestation"

 * 1964 — Albert A. Branca, Psychology: The Science of Behavior, Allyn and Bacon (1964), page 237:
 * Touching the palm brings out a weak grasping reflex, and touching of the mouth of prenates (as children are called before they are born) before the twenty-fourth week causes sucking.
 * 1988 — David B. Chamberlain, Babies Remember Birth: And Other Extraordinary Scientific Discoveries About the Mind and Personality of Your Newborn, J. P. Tarcher (1988), ISBN 9780874774689, page 18:
 * Prenates come to their senses gradually and quietly in the womb.
 * 2000 — Carista Luminaire-Rosen, Parenting Begins Before Conception: A Guide to Preparing Body, Mind, and Spirit for You and Your Future Child, Healing Arts Press (2000), ISBN 0892818271, page 220:
 * Compositions by such classical composers as Bach, Mozart, Hadyn, Handel, Fasch, and Vivaldi are excellent for the pregnant mom. It has been commonly noted that prenates do not like hard-rock music.
 * 2005 — Barbara Harper, Gentle Birth Choices, Healing Arts Press (2005), ISBN 9781594778636, page 200:
 * Current research tells us that prenates would prefer to hear lullabies sung by their mothers.
 * 2006 — Alissa Quart, Hothouse Kids: How the Pressure to Succeed Threatens Childhood, Penguin Books (2006), ISBN 1594200955, page 34:
 * "BabyPlus helps with imprinting," Brent Logan, the inventor, claims. "And soon, the imprinting window shuts off for the fetus and it is too late. When they are prenates, they are in an unusual different time and they are learning in a different mode."
 * 2006 — Colin D. Standish and Russell R. Standish, Youth, Are You Preparing for Your Divource?, Hartland Publications (2006), ISBN 0923309969, page 111:
 * In the United States, since the enactment of the Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision, the floodgate has opened to permissive abortion, and it is estimate that about one and one half million prenates are legally aborted in the United States every year.
 * 2008 — Elsie Jones-Smith, Nurturing Nonviolent Children: A Guide for Parents, Educators, and Counselors, Praeger (2008), ISBN 9780275984038, page 41:
 * Prenates can see, hear, feel, remember, taste, and even think before birth.
 * 2009 — Franklyn Sills, Being and Becoming: Psychodynamics, Buddhism, and the Origins of Selfhood, North Atlantic Books (2009), ISBN 9781556437625, page 255:
 * Prenates and infants tend to default to this most primitive response much more easily than older children or adults.
 * 2012 — Robin Karr-Morse & Meredith S. Wiley, Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease, Basic Books (2012), ISBN 9780465013548, page 66:
 * Recently the convergence of four advances — ultrasound imaging, neonatal intensive care unit technologies to preserve the lives of younger and younger preemies, discernment of the biology of the stress response and new methods to evaluate stress in prenates — has given us an unprecedented look into a previously unseen world.