So you or someone you know is going to have a baby! This is generally viewed as one of the happiest times in a couple's life. And the law of God is here, the promised Comforter,See John 14:16,17,26. offering deliverance from any fears that might arise.
As an expectant mother or father (or friend or relative), we can lift our thought above limited human conceptions about birth to the facts concerning man's spiritual origin. This lifting up of human consciousness can be a decided aid in the whole experience of pregnancy and birth. It requires of us an inner yearning to learn more about God and how He conceives man. It also requires that we give up some of our entrenched human beliefs for the spiritual facts of being. We must yield up whatever misconceptions may be closely held in human thought, in order to make room for spiritual reality. The Bible tells us in Isaiah, "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?" Isa. 2:22.
The fact of man's spiritual being has always been true and never changes. One of the beliefs to be given up is that man is material and conceived by human parents. In accord with the Bible, Christian Science reveals that God is the only creator of man, and that the child is in reality His idea, His very image and likeness. Man's identity is spiritual, expressing true substance in spiritual qualities such as intelligence, understanding, health, wholeness, perfection, and beauty. The child's real selfhood is complete in divine Mind—happy, contented, and satisfied. It has preexisted any material beliefs about its conception. It is perfect, therefore normal in every respect.
