Mouse, you knew your mother while you were in the womb too and you attached to her there also. Babies listen to their mom's voices and the other voices of the family too. Babies turn their heads toward their parents when they hear mom's and dad's voices after they are born. My husband saw this happen. He went over while they were cleaning up our first born. Everyone there was talking and our child wasn't focusing on anything and then my husband asked a question and she looked right towards him! I have heard it explained that babies already know their mothers when they are born and if that baby is adopted that child is mourning the loss of her mother. That child grows up never having completed that mourning because it was preverbal and therefore not understood...........