ROSE QUARTZ is called the "Love Stone",unconditional love that opens the heart chakra. This makes rose quartz a stone for every type of love: self-love,family,platonic,romantic,unconditional. It has strong energy to enhance love in any situation.It is also a mothering crystal, inspiring nurturing of the self if one has lost their own mother. It promotes bonding and is a good stone to place on the stomach during pregnancy, and to take to the hospital to be near the baby during birth