Feeling or emotion during pregnancy shape the character of the unborn child. The mother of Kauravas — Gandhari was a woman of high moral stature, who always exhorted her sons to follow dharma and not fight with their cousins.

Virtuous though, she was jealous towards her sister-in-law Kunti because she had sons before herself, sons who happened to be highly honorable and praised by everybody. That base emotion stayed on with Duryodhana whom even Lord Krishna failed to reform.

Once the unborn baby’s personality has been crystallized in the mother’ s womb, it sticks with the child and then the man throughout his entire life. She was thus a combination of virtue and weakness, somewhat of a cautionary tale.
It is evident that care must be taken by the mother not to give in to the least negative feeling or emotion during pregnancy.