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Near-death experiences (NDE’s) are being reported more frequently as medicine and technology are able to save many who would have previously died from their injuries or illnesses. Less common are NDE’s in which the person relives a past-life. One such instance was Gretchen’s near-death experience that took place while she was laboring to birth her daughter. As the baby was unable to pass through the birth canal because of its position, the anesthesiologist administered sodium pentothal in order to deliver the child. That was when Gretchen began reliving a series of three prior lives in which she had died in childbirth.

In the first recall Gretchen was an English woman married to a planter in Africa. They were attacked by Africans of a tribe different from the ones who worked for them. She was raped, left for dead, and rescued by a native man and woman who lived in a cave. The English woman discovered she was pregnant but was unsure if the father was her husband or one of the attackers. When it was time to deliver the child, she went into protracted labor and was unable to deliver. In her agony she somehow learned to lift out of the body to alleviate the pain and was finally able to drag herself out of the cave. She did not want to die inside the cave because the man and woman who had helped her would have had to abandon it.

After leaving that body, she immediately found herself in a second past-life inside a covered wagon that was being attacked by Native Americans. Again she was pregnant and in the throes of delivery but could not deliver the child because the wagon was bouncing around. She became very angry and rose out of her body, filling the sky with her spirit. She was furious. The horses of the attackers sensed her spirit and would not move. The wagon trains immediately pulled into a circle for defense. When the members of her party checked on her, they found that she was already dead, and no one attempted to save the baby.

Then, through the fog, Gretchen heard the voice of the anesthesiologist telling her to breathe deeper, which she did, and in doing so slipped into a third past-life where she was once more exiting her body during delivery. She was married to a farmer in Britain who had a disability. As the farmer’s wife she was very ecstatic to be released from that life, but her husband was distraught. Although her spirit playfully said to him after it left the body, “Don’t you know I’ll be with you always? I’ll never leave you,” he couldn’t hear her and refused to be comforted. She began to sense the enormity of how bad her decision to leave her body was when suddenly Gretchen found herself back in the present looking down at her body in the delivery room. Gretchen thought in amazement, “I’ve done it again!” As she watched, a nurse reported, “No detectable pulse, doctor.” The anesthesiologist responded, “No discernable breathing,” and the doctor said, “Well, let’s get the baby out, at least.”

As she watched what was taking place, Gretchen felt sad, recognizing that there must be something she needed to work through FOLLOWING the birth of a child. That caused her to take a deep breath and immediately return to her body and deliver her daughter.

Gretchen was raised with a very conservative Christian religious upbringing. Reincarnation was not part of that belief system, but this experience caused her to begin a search which changed her life. She subsequently returned to school to receive a Master’s degree, divorced her highly dysfunctional husband, met and subsequently married the man who had been the farmer in the third past-life recall (!), and became involved with the A.R.E. The information in the Cayce readings answered her questions and led her to a new spiritual life based on those concepts. All of this occurred because of the very dramatic reliving of three lives in a near-death experience resulting in her making a different choice this time—the choice to stay in the body and birth a new life, not just for her daughter, but for herself.