How many of you have heard the story of Abhimanyu getting a hands-on lesson in the craft of warfare in his mother’s womb and dismissed it as old wives’ tale? Old wives’ tale, did you say? Well, think again

• Before the birth of Buddha, his mother, Mahamaya had followed certain rituals and also observed certain abstemious penances. A lovely boy was born to her in the pleasant environs of Lumbini. That boy grew up to become Lord Buddha.

• When Pralhad's mother was pregnant with him, she would to listen to devotional songs. So, although Pralhad took birth in a Rakshasa family, he became a devotee of Lord Vishnu.

• The mother of the freedom fighter, Savarkar, would to read aloud stories of courage and valor from the Ramayana and recount the brave exploits Maharana Pratap to her unborn son womb.

• When tabla maestro, Zakir Hussain was in his mother's womb, his father, Ustad Allah Rakha used to beat lightly with his fingers on his mother's abdomen.