This is for all the mothers out there.

Do you believe you remember the moment you conceived? On that special night, did you somehow know that you were pregnant...and possibly even know whether it would be a boy or a girl?

This happened to me. I remember the night that I believe to be the night of the conception of our son.

I was lying awake some time after my husband had gone to sleep and I heard, yet didn't actually hear, a masculine voice. It told me that I had just become pregnant and would have a boy. But I didn't hear the words, and I couldn't tell you what the voice sounded like other than that it came from a male. It was more like the message was imprinted on my mind, and I never once doubted it.

Sure enough, I was pregnant and now have a son. I knew it would be a boy. I feel that even without the "messenger", I would have known it was a boy.

When looking for names, I focused on boy names. Looking at girl names felt pointless, a total waste of time. My husband insisted I pick some girl names for consideration anyway and it frustrated me because I knew it would not be a girl.

Later, I read somewhere that this is fairly common - for a woman to know that she has conceived when no practical means have told her so. This is so accepted because there have been so many reports of it. Maybe it's the beginning of a true acceptance that we all, men and women, have ESP to some degree, which I believe we do.

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children. --William Makepeace Thackeray