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Julia Jablonski

Pregnancy and childbirth open powerful doorways for spiritual experiences. It was when I was pregnant with my first child, Nick, that my conscious psychic awareness sprang to life. I had many unusual supernatural experiences at this time. One that didn't seem all that extraordinary at the time but later proved profound involved communication with the spirit of my unborn son.

I was about five months pregnant. I remember that the baby had just recently begun to kick. I was lying in bed resting in the late afternoon. I began to wonder what my child would be like, whether it would be a boy or a girl, etc... Suddenly I felt strange, and felt a tight energy in my chest. I had a vision then of a little boy about three years of age. He was blond and blue-eyed, and in this vision, he looked back at me then turned forward and took my husband's hand. I knew I was seeing my son in the future.

Throughout the rest of my pregnancy, I insisted that I knew my baby would be a boy, though I didn't tell anyone how I knew. Of course, he was! A few years later I was walking through a local grocery store with my husband and Nick, and the vision I'd been shown years before was played out in reality. I had an intense feeling of deja vu as my little son looked back over his shoulder at me, then took my husband's hand just as I'd seen before he was born.

After many unusual supernatural and psychic experiences at this time, I undertook an intense period of spiritual development and my psychic abilities were greatly enhanced and refined. I began meditating devotedly and my clairvoyance became pronounced. By the time I became pregnant with my second child, I had come a long way from the metaphysical novice I had been when pregnant with my first child. I had communicated with "spirits" many times, both those known to me such as my dear grandmother, and those related to other people in my life.

In the fall I began to become aware of a spirit that was "hanging around." At first it was a subtle feeling, such as you might feel if someone were looking at you from across a room. As the days passed I became more and more aware of the spirit's presence, though it was an awareness that was more "in the back of my mind" than conscious. One day it just hit me that there was a definite presence. When I acknowledged this consciously I knew immediately that this presence was that of a child I would bring into the world in the future.

Over the next few months I came to know the energy of this spirit very well. It was definitely female, or presented itself this way. I became aware of her presence more and more frequently as time went on. It was not an ideal time to have a child for our family. I was working to pay off the debts we had accrued when I had returned to college after my son was born so that we could buy a house. So while I was aware of her presence, I was in no hurry to conceive.

I was still working on those debts at Christmas time. In mid-December I received the strong impression that now was the time for my daughter to begin to make her way into our world. Despite the financial difficulties involved, this feeling was so strong that I didn't hesitate. I had yet to even tell my husband that she had been "hanging around," as I didn't what him to feel more stressed over our finances. At this point I told him that I had been aware of her presence for months and that she was telling me that now was the time to be conceived. Fortunately, after all the other incredible experiences he had witnessed since marrying me, my husband was not about to question the situation. We "got down to work" right away.

A few days after this I was alone playing the piano in my parents' family room. We were visiting their house for the holidays as we always do. My cousin's wife was expecting her first baby any day. As I played I became aware of my grandmother's presence. This was not too unusual, for my grandmother had paid for my piano lessons for many years when I was a child, and my playing had always been a great source of pleasure to her. (What I lacked in talent she made up for in partiality!) Often when I played the piano or any classical music she would have loved she would show up.

I was a bit surprised, however, as I hadn't "heard" from her in a couple of years. She was around frequently for a year or so after she died, but then her visits stopped. I had assumed she had moved beyond my range in some manner. I stopped playing and went and sat on the couch to still my mind and try to better communicate with her. I was very surprised to detect my grandfather with her when I did so. My grandfather had died a few years before my grandmother. Both of them were very dear to me, though I must say that my grandmother and I were exceptionally close. I had tried to reach my grandfather, but aside from one rather subtle experience had been unsuccessful. This was the first and only time I was clearly aware of his presence.

I sat on the couch in my parents' family room and I could so clearly feel the love and particular energies of my grandparents that I missed so much. Tears were streaming down my face as I sat in silence, staring at two balls of energy in space before me. I was sending out messages from my heart about my love for them, and we shared a few communications about where they were, etc... Then they told me that my cousin's baby was there with them, and that it was a girl. They then said, "And your baby girl is here with us too." This just blew me away.

Comically, my first thought was, "How do YOU know about her?" My husband and I had told no one that we'd decided to try to conceive. The communication with them was so real that I forgot that they were in the "spirit world" for a minute!

I told my mother about this experience just after it happened. When I went into the kitchen it was clear I had been crying, and my mother is very connected to me emotionally. She cried a bit herself as I related the incident.

Well, a few days later my cousin's wife gave birth to a baby girl. Five weeks later I found out that I was pregnant. I knew when I had conceived: it was a few days before the appearance of my grandparents. Throughout my pregnancy I was aware of my unborn daughter's spirit's presence. I had been aware with my first pregnancy, and had had visions of my son in the future during the pregnancy, but my awareness was much clearer with my daughter, no doubt because I was more open and experienced by this time.

Despite the claims of my nurse-midwives that the baby would be a boy based on the heart rate, I maintained from the beginning that she would be a girl, and my husband aligned himself with perceptions! We even had a bet going when I was in labor, for the medical staff all maintained she'd be a boy, but I was adamant that the baby was a girl.

When choosing names for the baby, my husband and I didn't even bother to choose a boy's name. I had a vision of myself signing a card for my brother's then-fiancée. I signed my name, my husband's name, my son's name, and "Emily." When I suggested the name Emily to my husband he said, "That's it!" We of course named her Emily. About a year later I did sign that card in just that way. My brother's fiancée by that time was Emily's godmother.

In case you're wondering, things turned out just fine. I stopped working in my fourth month of pregnancy due to a torn muscle. One month later we moved into our first house. The timing couldn't have been better!